Eastern Airlines A300 Flight from Charlotte to New York (LGA)

[Neno8403]

Wow! Even in 1980 people were dressing up to fly ... widebodies such as the L-1011 and A300 regularly flew into LaGuardia ... oh, and iconic airlines such as TWA and Eastern, still existed. If someone transported a person familiar with LGA into LGA, today, they'd think they were at some small, regional airport. What a shame what U.S. aviation has become. Thanks for the journey back into time! Great vid!

[prglg]

What a video!! Thanks!!

[neweast1]

nice expressway approach to rw 31 at klga.it was always fun to watch those widebodies making a tight left turn over shea stadium then on to 31. now all we get are md 80s a 319s and crappy regional jets. havent seen a 767 come in in years the only one still maybe flying them in is delta......

[snowballs442]

Delta did not take over Eastern. Eastern went out on strike thanks to the stupid union. We did not get any A300s but a few L1011s

[Springbok295]

I was in 7th grade when you shot this. Brings back memories of my first EA A300 ride in '82.

[mrblujet]

An A300 from CLT to LGA? Man - those were the days !

[fabrizioave]

This is the kind of video I could define: "poetry"! Do you like the blonde woman

at the beginning of the video guys? I'm sure if I was on that aircraft I would fall in love!

[pcmiler2000]

People knew how to dressed when they board a plane back in the day but today people don't even dress classic anymore when getting on a plane, and sometimes you wonder if you are at a greyhound bus station.

[edmonton67]

A great soundtrack for a classic.

[pcmiler2000]

@edmonton67 And I agree. Classic people and classic music is a perfect match.

[RicardoNY1]

Eastern A-300's into KLGA? All I got to see were the L-1011's. Good video, thanks for sharing.

[panamcunard]

Wow, there was wide body service between Charlotte and LGA. Charlotte -JFK would be less of a shock, but Charlotte-LGA, now that is a shock. What really something, is the fact that the plane looked almost full.

[CVKent317]

The A-300's can take off out of most of the same runways the 727's can operate out of.

[ITSWIN55]

SDMullis, did you edit the video to give it a sepia-oldy effect or where videos really like that in 1980? also as i wasnt born at the time, could you tell me if you ever spotted a delta a300 since they took over eastern airlines?

[Starboard76]

It appears SDmullis shot this in 8mm or 16mm film, a video camera in 1980 was gigantic-size of a giant boombox - and would have cost a fortune back then. Delta did not take over Eastern, Delta did take Eastern's gate space at Atlanta, half of Concourse B and all of C. Eastern was folded into Texas Air Corp .. under it's dominant Continental Airlines brand (who got a lot of EA A300s), along with New York Air, People Express and the original Frontier Airlines.

Hope that helps.

[ITSWIN55]

oh, im sorry, i meant western airlines, and now i realize they did not actually have A300s since this is easter airlines and not western. Oh well, although im certain i saw a delta A310 or A300 once

[Starboard76]

True, it was Delra who acquired the late great, Western Airlines. And you DID see Delta A310s, ir's just that they came from Delta's acquisition of a large chunk of Pan Am's European network and Kennedy operations. PA had some 30÷ A310s and Delta for them all only to replace them with 767s.

[SDMullis]

This was filmed with a Bell&Howell Super 8mm movie camera. It used real rolls of film...you are too young to remember. I did not have to add sepia effects, etc. That is the way the movies looked back then. I do not think Delta took over Eastern. They got a few L-1011s when Eastern shut down but no A300s.

[ITSWIN55]

yes, i confused eastern and western airlines, which was the actual airline they took over (which got them the SLC hub)

[Burnleyladd]

"Western Airlines" was whom Delta took over the SLC Hub after Delta merged with them back in the late 80's. "Eastern Airlines" had a Hub in Kansas City from i believe 1985-88 thats the farthest west they ever had a Hub. A-300 beauty of a plane! And seeing all those 1011's at LGA allways puts a smile on my face!

[hzzlrp10]

@SDMullis

Quite correct. Delta did not take over Eastern, the airline imploded on itself in 1991.

Delta (amongst others) picked over the company's assets after the shut down. They got several L-1011, 727, and I believe some DC-9's.

I believe the A-300 went on to fly with Continental if I'm not mistaken.

[98148AH]

@ITSWIN55 Delta did not take over Eastern but they did get a number of ex-Eastern L1011's and B727-200's after EA went bankrupt and folded in January 1991.

[gaguy1967]

@ITSWIN55 The EAL A300s went to Continental

[nycflyer]

My word, Can you imagine an A300 on that route today?

[98148AH]

Wow, EA used the A300 CLT-LGA. I find it amazing they did this especially in this day and age of the regional jet. Did the flight deaprt frtom the old terminal south of the NE-SW crosswind rwy? My first widebody flight was on an EA A300 ATL-SFO in July 1987. I was amazed by the big and wide cabin. It felt like I was in my living room. I remember the big window in the rear of the A300 near the L4 door and having to go through the very smoky Y cabin aft of the wings back when allow smoking.

[jt8fan7272]

Wow!! My father worked on these at Eastern! I wished I could have flown on one, b/c he said they were great airplanes. Thanks for posting these vids!

[ogre727]

wow!!! amazing... thanks for posting!!!

[vembermember]

cool video I sure miss the good classic airlines like Eastern, Pan-Am, TWA

[MrAirplanepeanut]

awesome video thanks you for sharing!

[320k]

Wow, this is really nice. Is it Super-8?

[SDMullis]

Yes. I used a Bell&Howell Super 8 movie camera. Sure wish digital video cameras were available back then !