Lower-demand, shorter-range routes inappropriate for larger-capacity aircraft dictated the types that could be operated during the first few decades of the jet age: a high-capacity jet…
Author: Robert G. Waldvogel
Robert G. Waldvogel
Robert G. Waldvogel has spent thirty years working at JFK International and LaGuardia airports with the likes of Capitol Air, Midway Airlines, Triangle Aviation Services, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Austrian Airlines, and Lufthansa in Ground Operations and Management. He has created and taught aviation programs on both the airline and university level, and is an aviation author.
Internal need sometimes leads to external purpose. Midwest Express Airlines, a unique, post-deregulation carrier, successfully demonstrated this concept. From Corporate to Commercial Aviation Tracing its roots to…
When a passenger approached his departure gate at the dawn of the Jet Age in the early-1960s and noted propellers on his aircraft, he most likely…
Many small, independent airlines, which operated a handful of turboprop aircraft within a limited catchment area, were later propelled into the major ranks because of three…
Located in the mid-Hudson Valley, Newburgh’s Stewart International Airport (SWF), south of Kingston and some 65 miles north of Manhattan, is one of three secondary airports,…
Deregulation offered entrepreneurs opportunities to craft their own versions of airlines, which varied in concept, fare structure, and destination, and passengers the opportunities to choose new,…
When technological innovations occur, someone or some company becomes the first to invent and introduce them, and others often follow, sometimes improving upon them. In the…
States carry associations. In the case of California, it is Hollywood. In the case of Colorado, it is the Rocky Mountains. And in the case of…
When a boarding announcement was recently made in the gate area at Los Angeles International Airport for a flight to JFK, most of the passengers rose…
Airline Origins and Service Inauguration Chicago-based Midway Airlines, which plied the skies for a dozen years, was the first deregulation-spawned start-up to enter service, paving the…