Eastern Air Lines Tribute HD

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[billace90]

In the seventies, and until the mid eighties, Eastern's operation in SJU was huge. It controlled most of the flights, and offered many excellent destinatinons. Then American took over and it has been the biggest carrier since. I surely miss those EAL's beautiful and efficient L-1011's. Thanks for posting.

[WindowsPictures]

@billace90 Yes indeed, SJU was an Eastern fortress hub for their Latin America route network. Then in the late 80's EAL sold the latin American network to AA, which resulted on AA taking the Eastern Air Lines terminal at SJU. Currently due to the AA schedule cuts now AA has left their SJU terminal with most gates unused (Gates 3-8) and now they use gates 9-16 (or so). Many will surely miss Eastern in Puerto Rico.

[doulasc]

South Florida will never be the same without Eastern,Pan Am and National.

[jetaddicted]

i remember eastern's tristars landing in quito when i was a kid,i always found their colours sweet to look at!

memories...

[neweast1]

took my first flight on eastern 727 lga to dca the shuttle.b-727 were great but when took my first l-1011 flight out of lga all i could rember how huge the inside was and when those engines spooled up and starting rolling you had that wonderful engine sound.and a slight smell of jet a .the 1011 was the greatest bird every built.every minute everyday an eastern jet was on the way....

[elkhunter4817]

Not only were these great airlines but in the 50's and 60's it was a great time to grow up. People were responsible, most law bidding, had morals, America was at the top of the world in almost everything. God it was great. Now we are the laughing stock of the world, broke, uneducated all because of greed. Ask Lorenzo. Just like he sold out Eastern our representatives have sold us out.

[miamiwestchester]

@elkhunter4817 Same here, was born in the Gables in 1960, and grew up with Eastern. Whether it was at school, or at church or just about anywhere, you knew someone who worked for, or who's parents worked for either Eastern, National, or Pan Am. Too bad all those days are gone. Miami is just not the same town it used to be, especially without the airline industry.

[elkhunter4817]

Brings back lots of great memories growing up in Miami during the 50's and 60's. Miami then had approximately one quarter of the working population then worked for the airline industry in Miami. My father-in-law and neighbor worked for Eastern and my brother-in-law worked for National and then Pan Am. A good friend worked for Northeast. These airlines are all gone but not forgotten. Those were the days!!!

[flygirl3521]

Amen! Frank Lorenzo looted away all of the South American routes and the LGA-DCA / LGA-BOS shuttle, which made money for EAL. For those of us that spent a lot of wonderful years working for this airline, it changed radically when Lorenzo came onboard and drove it into the ground. For those of us that loved the airline, it WAS a family we will never forget! Thanks for the great video!

[seg042573]

Frank Lorenzo Ruined Eastern ! I wish we had Eastern back no other airline even comes close !

[MotoCasa]

Nice clip. 30 years ago today I went to work for them. After 10 years I walked away with some great memories but the greatest lesson was that our governement totally failed the people allowing the back door sale and breakdown to happen. It was a huge scam and it hurt many people who never recovered.

Too bad it is so forgotten and the truth never really came out.

[450984]

I loved Eastern, I flew nothing but in the 70's. It was the 1 and only CLASS Airline!