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  Transpacific Route Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Transpacific Route Case was a major administrative law case argued before the Civil Aeronautics Board for much of the 1960's.
Before the case, the only U.S. airlines permitted to fly transpacific routes were Pan Am and Northwest Orient.
Continental Airlines also flew transpacific routes on military contract, but was not allowed to carry civilians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transpacific_Route_Case   (272 words)

  
 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > United Airlines
Following the Air Mail Scandal[?] of 1930, by 1934 the company still held its airlines routes but had lost all its non-airline holdings and had a new president in William A. Patterson[?] (who remained in that office until 1963).
United also began to seek overseas routes in the 1960s, but the Transpacific Route Case[?] (1969) denied them this expansion, it did not gain an overseas route until 1983.
It was among the first to introduce the Boeing 777 twin-jet on trans Atlantic routes.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/un/United_Airlines   (491 words)

  
 Trans World Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
It established routes from Europe to Asia during the 1950s and 1960s, flying its aircraft as far east as Hong Kong.
In the Transpacific Route Case of 1969, TWA was given authority to extend its route network across the Pacific Ocean as well.
After reorganizing as a primarily domestic carrier, with routes centered around hubs at St. Louis and New York, TWA announced a major fleet renewal in 1998, ordering 125 aircraft.
www.encyclopedia-online.info /TWA   (463 words)

  
 American Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On January 25, 1930, American Airways was incorporated as a single company, with routes from Boston, New York and Chicago, Illinois to Dallas, and a transcontinental route from Dallas to Los Angeles.
The flight was en route from Paris Charles De Gaulle to Miami, and was diverted to Boston's Logan Airport.
A Boeing 777-200 en route London Heathrow-New York JFK was forced to make an emergency landing at Dublin on June 12, 2006 after the smell of smoke was reported on board.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Airlines   (4174 words)

  
 United Airlines - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
United operates extensive domestic route networks concentrated in the Midwestern and Western United States and is prominent in transcontinental, transatlantic, and transpacific service.
United's early route system, formed by connecting air mail routes to one-another, operated essentially north-and-south along the West Coast, and east-to-west along a transcontinental route from San Francisco to the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states via Denver, Colorado.
United had begun to seek overseas routes in the 1960s, but the Transpacific Route Case (1969) denied them this expansion.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/United_Airlines   (4169 words)

  
 Learn more about United Airlines in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
United also began to seek overseas routes in the 1960s, but the Transpacific Route Case (1969) denied them this expansion and it did not gain an overseas route until 1983, when they began flights to Tokyo.
By the end of the year, United had flights to 13 Pacific destinations, many of which were with route contracts purchased from the ailing Pan Am.
While the plot was prevented, a "descendant" of the project perfected by Khalid Sheik Mohammed would cause tragedy on the company's airliners six years later.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/un/united_airlines.html   (893 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The airline won the contract for a San Francisco-Canton mail route later that year, running its first commercial flight in a Martin M-130 on November 22 to massive media fanfare.
During this era, Pan Am pioneered a new air route across western and central Africa to Iran, and in early 1942, the airline became the first to operate a route circumnavigating the globe.
Many of its routes were between New York, Europe, and South America, and between Miami and the Caribbean.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/PanAm   (4304 words)

  
 United Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
United operates an extensive domestic route network concentrated in the Midwestern and Western United States.
It is by far the leading US carrier to Hawaii and Asia, flying 25,821,884 transpacific RPMs in 2005 or 300 weekly departures; in 2005, United carried 1.9 million passengers to the Hawaiian Islands.
The airline lobbied for transpacific routes for over 20 years, but its westernmost destination was Honolulu until 1983.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Carpet_Club   (5051 words)

  
 United Airlines - Era 7: 1970-1989
In addition, the Civil Aeronautics Board's Transpacific Route Case decision in mid-1969 cost United its bid for international routes and drained profits from the airline's lucrative U.S. Mainland-Hawaii operation.
United, itself, went beyond U.S. borders -- first, via new route authority to serve Tokyo from Seattle in 1983, and, two years later, through the purchase of Pan American Airways' Pacific Division.
To reflect its new direction, United changed its logo and aircraft livery and incorporated the design and color scheme in its employee uniforms, ground equipment and corporate signage.
www.united.com /page/middlepage/0,1454,2292,00.html   (404 words)

  
 DOJ/Antitrust
Focusing specifically on Transpacific, it held the decision "is factually inapposite and constitutes dicta as to Tucor" and that the government's legal positions in the two cases are at least arguably "not in contradiction," so that "defendants have not established that the government's failure to disclose was made with a malicious intent" (id.
Based on the only precedent that existed at the time this case was filed, the government believed that whether a movement under a through government bill of lading was "through transportation" was an issue of fact to be settled by evidence at trial, not on the face of the indictment.
As the Eleventh Circuit held in that case, the statute is intended to punish "prosecutorial misconduct, not prosecutorial mistake." 198 F.3d at 1304.
www.usdoj.gov /atr/cases/f5200/5222.htm   (8279 words)

  
 Trans World Airlines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the 1950s the TWA Moonliner was the tallest structure at Disneyland and depicted atomic-powered travel to come in 1986.
And in the Transpacific Route Case of 1969, TWA was given authority to extend its route network across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii, Japan, and Taiwan.
In 1969 TWA opened the Breech Academy on a 25-acre campus in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kansas, to train its flight attendants, ticket and travel agents, as well as providing flight simulators for its pilots.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trans_World_Airlines   (2801 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The Post Office opened up bids for a San Francisco-Canton mail route later that year, and Pan Am won the contract, running its first commercial flight in a Martin M-130 on November 22 to massive media fanfare.
A combination of high fuel prices, low demand for air travel, and oversupply in the international air travel market (partly caused by federal route awards to other airlines, such as the Transpacific Route Case) caused Pan Am's load factors and profit margins to shrink.
After several failed attempts to win approval for domestic routes, the enactment of airline deregulation finally allowed Pan Am to begin flights between its five U.S. gateways in 1979.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/PanAm   (2165 words)

  
 new zealand ,vietnam airlines,pacific coastal airlines,vietnam airlines,flyjet,air miles,air miles,jetcraft ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
In australia and new zealand, city is used to refer both to units of local government, and as a synonym for urban area.
Following the transpacific route case, aa began 747 flights to australia and new zealand, although it traded these routes to pan am in 1975 in exchange for routes to the caribbean.
In 1973, it became a commercial airline flying routes around the north island of new zealand, capitalising on provincial routes not serviced by the national airline, air new zealand.
www.polotsk.org /New_Zealand   (1655 words)

  
 United Airlines
United operates extensive domestic route networks in the Midwestern and Western United States and is prominent in transcontinental, transatlantic, and transpacific service.
United has focused for the last several years on its international presence, notably to the People's Republic of China (with nonstop flights to Beijing and Shanghai from its hubs in Chicago and San Francisco).
The early slogan "The Main Line Airway," emphasizing its signature New York-Chicago-San Francisco route, was replaced in 1965 with "Fly the Friendly Skies." The "friendly skies" tagline was used until 1996.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/un/united_airlines.html   (4102 words)

  
 United Airlines - Era 6: 1959-1969
In the same period, the company established its undisputed position as the world's largest commercial airline when it merged with Capital Airlines, then the fifth largest air transport company in the United States.
On Sept 26, 1963, George Keck was elected president of United and William Patterson was named chairman of the board and CEO.
Before the decade ended, the Civil Aeronautics Board issued its devastating decision in the Transpacific Route Case, denying United's application for routes to Asia.
www.united.com /page/middlepage/0,1454,2291,00.html   (255 words)

  
 History of United Airlines
When the smoke cleared, United regained all of its air mail routes, but was forced to divest itself of its non-airline affiliates.
But while the forecasters were correct in their predictions, none came close to foretelling the suddenness and intensity with which the boom would thrust itself upon the nation, particularly upon the air transport industry.
The route was the final link needed to establish the company's "'Round the World" service and make United a truly global airline.
www.geocities.com /capecanaveral/hangar/9496   (3009 words)

  
 Trans World Airlines - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The cause is debated, but the media focused heavily on the fact that TWA's airline fleet was among the oldest in service.
By 1998, TWA reorganized as a primarily domestic carrier, with routes centered around hubs at St. Louis and New York.
Partly in response to TWA Flight 800 and the age of its fleet, TWA announced a major fleet renewal, ordering 125 new aircraft.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/TWA   (777 words)

  
 Aviation Past-American Airlines
Routes of the new for the new corporation included Boston, Chicago, and New York to Dallas, along with a Dallas to Los Angeles transcontinental flight.
In 1934 the airline began using the Curtiss Condor, especially fitted with sleeping births for the longer routes the airline flew.
After the Transpacific Route Case, American began 747 service to Australia and New Zealand, but then later traded it to PanAm in return for several caribbean routes in 1975.
www.aviationpast.com /American.html   (1577 words)

  
 Changed forever
Al Becker, one of a handful of American Airlines executives from the regulated era who is still at the carrier, remembers a CAB route case in the late 1960s and early 1970s in which American was seeking authority to serve both Omaha and Des Moines.
Years later he would recall that his first official act in the deregulated era was to adjudicate whether the airline men could leave the line to go to the men's room without losing their places; his second was to convince the representative of Ozark Airlines that he did not need his gun.
CAB no longer was setting routes or fares but it retained some regulatory authority over the airlines and presided over the Competitive Marketing Investigation, which determined, among other things, that carriers should have the right to offer corporate or volume discounts and net fares.
www.atwonline.com /magazine/article.html?articleID=1159&print=Y   (2487 words)

  
 Ual Corporation Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
UAL said that during its Chapter 11 case, it will maintain its ability to continue its global operations and continue its long-standing commitment to its...
The Chapter 11 Cases are being jointly administered under the caption "In re UAL Corporation, et al., Case Nos.
Case resulted in compensation and presidential apology for Japanese Latin...
corporation.xasino.az.pl /ual-corporation-case.html   (886 words)

  
 Finding Aid to the Personal Papers of Robert Murphy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Transcripts, photographs, case files, memorandums, correspondence, newsclippings, and reports relating to the aviation industry; transcripts and scrapbook other materials relating to travel and negotiations in foreign countries.
This series is filed chronologically by year from 1961 to 1973, but some folders may contain material from dissents originating in alternate years due to the interrelated nature of the issues involved.
Each document contains a discussion section that addresses the major issues of the case and is assigned the docket number of that case.
www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/fa_murphy.html   (2787 words)

  
 Pan American World Airways @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
However, during World War II most of the Clippers were pressed into the military, with Pan Am flight crews operating the aircraft under contract.
After several failed attempts to win approval for domestic routes, the enactment of airline deregulation finally allowed Pan Am to begin domestic flights between its U.S. hubs in 1979.
The jumbo jet's great size proved to be a liability during the periodic economic downturns of the 1970s and 1980s.
www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Pan_American_World_Airways   (3949 words)

  
 American Airlines - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The airline operated its routes with all-metal Fokker Trimotors and Ford Trimotors.
A passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who officials said claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a team of federal air marshals on a jetway as the plane boarded at Miami International Airport for a flight to Orlando, Florida from MedellĂ­n,Colombia on December 7, 2005.
AA has also introduced new aircraft to its fleet: the newest are the Boeing 777-200ERs, which replaced MD-11s on key transoceanic routes in the late 1990s such as Tokyo Narita, and 737-800s, which replaced 727s and the BAC-111s on some domestic and Caribbean routes.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/American_Airlines   (3340 words)

  
 DOJ/Antitrust
In this case, the context of exemption (4) is provided by the preceding sections of the
Transpacific Westbound Rate Agreement, FMC Agreement No. 202-010689, section 5(a)(i) (5th ed., 1st Rev. p.
If this case is tried, the government would be prepared to prove that the defendants' rates were never filed.
www.usdoj.gov /atr/cases/f2100/2156.htm   (5604 words)

  
 Public Domain Content: United Airlines
United uses Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida as a focus city for Latin American flights, and has rights to fly international flights beyond London Heathrow Airport in London, UK.
Those rights are only used on one flight, that being the Chicago - London - Brussels route.
UA is part of the Star Alliance and currently codeshares with SNCF French Rail to stations in France.
www.publicdock.com /List_of_American_companies/United_Airlines.shtml   (595 words)

  
 DOCKING OF THE "COLORADO"
So rapidly did it exhaust the waters in the dock that spectators could see it recede before their eyes at every stroke of the mighty engines; and the actual times employed in pumping out the reservoir was but one hour and fifty minutes, and then the ship was completely out of water.
His plan was to tunnel under the bed of the bay, fill the tunnel with powder and blow it up, which plan has proved a great success; the plan generally suggested was to open a channel by submarine operations with divers.
Although Colorado made a few more transpacific runs, she spent the next dozen years mainly in the coastal work for which she was built.
www.zpub.com /sf/thepoint/DOCKCOLORADO.html   (1998 words)

  
 Pan_American_World_Airways - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia
With strong competition on many of its routes, Pan Am began investing in innovations such as jet and wide-body aircraft.
On September 23, 1974, a group of Pan Am employees published an ad in the New York Times to register their disagreement over federal policies which they felt were harming the financial viability of their employer.
(The routes would be transfered in April 1991, after British and American regulatory approvals.) This left Pan Am with its only London flights being two daily flights to Gatwick.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Pan_American_World_Airways   (5007 words)

  
 John Healey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Before the case, the only U.S. airlines permitted to fly transpacific routes were Pan American World Airways and Northwest Airlines : Continental Airlines also flew transpacific routes on military contract, but was not allowed to carry civilians.
Beckett uses repetition a great deal and explores complex sentence structures, where he chooses to cut short a statement before its presumed conclusion, or the opposite can be the case with a stream of words running into each other with, in some cases no coherence, in others complete lucidity.
Beckett uses "voices" as musical instruments travelling through the (specific) combined, language structure, repetitions and a gamut of emotions displayed in the text that cause changes in pitch and tone, unless the playwright has chosen a monotonous speech pattern as he does for particular characters in his plays.
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