Braniff Airways "End of The Plain Plane"

Rollout ad for the 1965 "End of the Plain Plane"
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[BraniffPages]

We plan on another Christmas Sale for the whole DVD (with all the ads) in the next week. Look for it on our website braniffpages

[varigdc10]

It was not a joke, this is when flying was flying. Nowadays its not the same. stewardesses had class, passengers had class, it was CLASS all around. Now its a zoo !!!

[johnlouisville]

In the end it wasn't the unions nor the recession that did Braniff in....it was the huge over-expansion just after deregulation that made Braniff vulnerable...All the other airlines gradually increased their routes and capacity....Braniff vastly increase their routes...especially international routes after the deregulation of 1978 . It's the top execs who brought it down.

[cjskamen]

@irishmom58 : I was a Braniff kid, too. My dad worked for them starting out in Wichita when they had only two pieces of equipment (planes) and flew the mail routes. He ended up at Dallas Ops & Maint. Base on Lemmon. Remember that? He retired after 45 years. I was a Braniff hostess in 1967-68. I think my first flight was probably a DC-3 or a Convair. Then they got the prop jets.

[yuripapov]

Stupid. This man don´t know brazilian or argentine culture! Cha-cha-cha? What is this? Go back to the school.

[BrownBrother27]

Who is the guy speaking in the commercial?

[Mickagume]

As a native Texan, I grew up with Braniff. It was the first airline I ever flew (round trip from San Antonio to Dallas Love Field). I've flown a lot of different carriers over the years, but there was never one with the color and style of Braniff. Here's an interesting bit of trivia: The president of Braniff , who was a University of Texas grad, provided an Orange plane with White tail to fly Darrell Royal and the Longhorn football team to all out-of-town games! (Hook 'Em!)

[TomsFriendKake]

@ParkerLiberty Braniff was THE trend-setter in style from the mid-60's until their demise in 1982. TWA, Pan Am & National were close seconds & everyone else followed far behind. Braniff was the first major airline to hire celebrity chefs to create their menu's, artists to design their cabins and their service items, a high end fashion designer to do their uniforms and a trendy ad agency to pull the whole thing together. This was a time when airlines competed with their service, not ticket price.

[TomsFriendKake]

@johnlouisville And they flew 747s on their international routes which were far too big, especially for a Boston gateway, a gateway city that Pan Am and TWA began cutting back on after deregulation because the yelds were lower than New York and DC. Also, Pan Am and TWA began installing deeply reclining sleeper seats on their international planes, and Braniff didn't. Finally, all the major airlines quicly realized the importance of the super computer to manage yields, and braniff didn't.

[TomsFriendKake]

@CanadianMapleLeaf01 On the 747's.

[TomsFriendKake]

@dougfw1 It really wasn't. End of the plain plane launched them from a large regional airline into a major airline. CEO Harding Lawrence was known for his temper leading to bad communication within management and because of this Laurence drastically misjudged the health of Braniff and made major stratic mistakes after deregulation. They lacked a powerful computer to manage yeld, chose Boston as a Europe hub using 747s which were too big and tried to compete with entrenched NWA and PA in Asia.

[graycloud057]

You could get a cocktail and some stewardess tail on the same flight, and they were classy, I mean classy! Miss you Braniff.