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British Overseas Airways Corp's 1958 calendar features striking portraits of postwar airliners, such as this De Havilland Comet. #YearsFlyBy This tweet was posted on April 11, 2017.
Browse through over 300 airline bags on our collection website! https://t.co/nrX8OITKTl This tweet was posted on April 05, 2022.
By 1969, twenty-six airlines reserved 122 of the aircraft for delivery, including Pan American World Airways and American Airlines. #SSTFirstGeneration This tweet was posted on March 21, 2023.
By 1978, the airline had expanded its service to San Francisco, recorded a decade of annual profits and attained a reputation for quality and reliable service. In 1981, the airline introduced the wide-body Douglas DC-10-15 on its high-density routes. #DefunctThursday #Mexicana This tweet was posted on May 19, 2022.
By late 1945, #PanAm realized the superiority of the DC-4 over the Boeing 314 flying boat and began to operate the airliner on both transpacific and transatlantic routes. #WingWednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
By the end of 1969, the carrier had gained a large customer base and charted over 800,000 bookings for the year. In the 1980s, the carrier was rebranded as #AirCal with a fresh look and color palette for its airliner liveries and flight crews. #DefunctThursday This tweet was posted on January 20, 2022.
By the end of the 1950s, the airline had rapidly expanded into 35 cities. In 1966, Ozark entered the jet age and purchased several Douglas DC-9 aircraft, and added destinations all over the country. #DefunctThursday #Ozark #AvGeek This tweet was posted on July 07, 2022.
By the late '50s, amenity kits became standard airline giveaways for most long-haul flights. https://t.co/fpZfu9X98K This tweet was posted on February 26, 2016.
By the late 1960s, airline uniform design shifted to bolder & more individualized expression. #FashionInFlight This tweet was posted on July 20, 2016.
California Central Airlines (CCA) was a short-lived post-war airline based in #Burbank, #California. #avgeek #aviationhistory This tweet was posted on September 11, 2017.
California Central Airlines (CCA) was a short-lived post-war airline based in Burbank, California, which operated from 1949 to 1954. #traveltuesday This tweet was posted on January 23, 2018.
California Central Airlines matchbook cover, late 1940s - early 1950s http://t.co/ybGkn98o This tweet was posted on April 12, 2012.
Can you believe it has been 20 years? On December 1, 2001, the final Trans World Airlines (TWA) flight departed from Kansas City, Missouri, and landed in St. Louis. #avgeek #OTD This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
Capital Airlines, a regional airline, started in the 1930s & was based at Washington National Airport #TravelTuesday This tweet was posted on January 19, 2016.
Cast your mind far, far back to the days before cell phones... When travelling internationally, how would you make a phone call? United Airlines offered pre-paid phone cards through their mileage reward programs. Do you remember using phone cards? #avgeek This tweet was posted on September 25, 2018.
Celebrate #PlayingCardDay with a few of our 1,500 decks of playing cards from airlines around the world! https://t.co/W41jxlxseW #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 28, 2015.
Celebrate the 747 in "Flying #TheMainLine: A History of United Airlines", on display, post-security, in Terminal 3. https://t.co/l3SGXBPfhd This tweet was posted on November 07, 2017.
Celebrations christening airplanes have their roots in christening events held for ships. This TWA (Trans World Airlines) Boeing 747-131, was christened the “City of San Francisco” by diplomat and former child star, Shirley Temple Black on April 5, 1970. #52Objects This tweet was posted on March 27, 2023.
Century Pacific Air Lines was one of the early commercial airline companies to operate at Mills Field. In May of 1931, the company announced it would start service on the West Coast, and San Francisco was selected as its main base of operations. This tweet was posted on June 22, 2021.
Check out a few of our huge collection of airline insignia online: https://t.co/cJiFyOYIeK #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 10, 2016.
China Airlines, the flag carrier of Taiwan, was founded #onthisday in 1959 by retired Chinese Air Force officers. Transpacific service to SF began in 1970 with the acquisition of the Boeing 707 jetliner. Have you ever flown on China Airlines? This tweet was posted on December 16, 2017.
China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was Asia’s first sustained commercial airline. Scheduled service began on October 21, 1929, along a 525-mile route from Shanghai to Hankou with two passengers and one pound of mail. #DefunctThursday #CNAC This tweet was posted on April 07, 2022.
China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) was Asia’s first sustained commercial airline. Scheduled service began on October 21, 1929, along a 525-mile route from Shanghai to Hankou with two passengers and one pound of mail. #DefunctThursday #CNAC This tweet was posted on March 31, 2022.
Clearly, we need this. MT @telstarlogistic: RT @Jaunted: American Airlines made a nail polish to match their planes. http://t.co/KR8IBG7Axw This tweet was posted on June 18, 2013.
Construction of the North Terminal (now Terminal 3) began #onthisday in 1971 with a groundbreaking ceremony that was attended by various politicians and flight attendants of various airlines. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on April 22, 2018.
Continental Airlines began as Varney Speed Lines in 1934. It originally used symbols and slogans to promote its claim to be the “Fastest Airline In The World.” #DefunctThursday #avgeek #aviationhistory #ContinentalAirlines This tweet was posted on April 21, 2022.
Crookston dreamed of flying as a child. She served with the Civil Air Patrol as a survey pilot and with the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor, but she was excluded from work as an airline pilot due to her gender. #SFOHistory #avgeek This tweet was posted on December 13, 2021.
Czech Airlines celebrated the first jetliner service between Prague & Moscow with a colorful luggage label: http://t.co/TsHRVPH0uo #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 27, 2015.
DYK Lufthansa has been one of the longest continually serving international airlines at SFO? Lufthansa’s first flight to SFO departed from Frankfurt on May 13, 1960. This photo was taken the following day in front of SFO’s Central Terminal. Have you ever flown on #Lufthansa? This tweet was posted on May 14, 2019.
Deemed too complicated and expensive to operate, its design was changed to a smaller, unpressurized airliner with a single tail, which became the DC-4. #WingWednesday #AvGeek This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
Delta's handy family tree features the evolution of airlines of years past: http://t.co/WLU7q6Oag9 #avgeek This tweet was posted on July 01, 2014.
Designated "Star Stream" by TWA, the 707 proved to be a fast, reliable, intercontinental and transcontinental workhorse and was operated by the airline until the early 1980s. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
Designed in complete secrecy under Lockheed’s chief research engineer, the 049 Constellation developed into an extremely fast, highly advanced, & revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive tripletail. #DefunctThursday #avgeek #TWA This tweet was posted on December 01, 2022.
Designed in secret under the leadership Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, and with direction from Hughes, the renamed L-049 Constellation evolved into an extremely fast, revolutionary large-capacity airliner with a unique dolphin-shaped fuselage and distinctive tripletail. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on April 14, 2021.
Despite expansion into new destinations the airline had crippling financial issues. It was acquired by Delta Air Lines in August 1972. #DefunctThursday #NortheastAirlines #AvGeek #AviationHistory This tweet was posted on June 23, 2022.
Despite its accolades, only 250 were ordered, well short of the projected 500. It was Lockheed’s first and only entry into the widebody airliner market. #wingwednesday #avgeek This tweet was posted on August 25, 2021.