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  1. Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965, and then Braniff International from 1965 until air operations ceased, was a United States trunk carrier, a scheduled airline that operated from 1928 until 1982 and continues today as a retailer, hotelier, travel service and branding and licensing company, administering the former airline's employee pass ...

  2. May 12, 2023 · Photo: Aero Icarus via flickr. Ultimately, on May 12, 1982, Braniff announced the suspension of all its flights and informed its 9,500 employees that they were not required to report to work the following day. The airline then applied for bankruptcy and ceased all operations, ending 54 colorful years in the skies. Source: The New York Times.

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  3. Sep 19, 2020 · Their executives saw in Braniff a well-run and stable concern with a highly underutilized operation that could, with an overhaul, become a world-class airline that just might span the globe. The Greatamerica management team was right and, in less than 2 years, Braniff became the talk of the town in aviation circles and the envy of all others with their carefully crafted and wildly-successful ...

  4. Jun 3, 2023 · The philosophical and literal union (they married) between Mary Wells of the marketing firm Wells Rich Greene and Harding Lawrence, leader of Braniff International, powered the airline's transformation through the 1960s and 70s. The artistic apogee of this union was the special Calder schemes one of which celebrated the 1976 US Bicentennial.

  5. Apr 10, 2022 · The airline was the first big casaulty of the deregulation era, making headlines around the world when its 71-strong rainbow fleet ceased operations on May 12, 1982. Braniff failed in spectacularly glamourous and stylish beauty (they loaded so much caviar onto Concorde flights that cabin crew would take leftovers home and feed it to their cats).

  6. Their first venture, Paul R. Braniff, Inc., formed in the spring of 1928, took to the air on its maiden flight on June 20, 1928 with a single 5 passenger single engine Stinson Detroiter. The new airline flew oil company executives between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where Braniff was based, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the heart of the Oklahoma oil boom.

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  8. Apr 25, 2013 · Braniff International Airways was an innovative, forward-thinking, iconic American airline that started many trends in the airline industry, several of which are still being utilized today. Operating from 1930 through 1982, Braniff flew routes throughout the middle and southwestern portions of the United States, as well as Panama, South America ...