Both birds and airplanes attain lift with wings. But one of the former species has none at all and is therefore flightless. When airlines fail, they, too,…
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…
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,…
On Monday, June 10, Metropolitan Airport News Editor-in-Chief Julia Lauria-Blum had the honor of representing pioneering pilot Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Cochran, who was inducted into the Long…
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…