The sell-out materializes

[wms]

AAG -900 next gen.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gia-V460xgs&feature=youtu.be

 

[Raoul Duke]

whatever - good for them

 

[Flyin2low]

What's so great about it? Endeavor has been operating them for a couple of years now. The video makes it look like it's such a groundbreaking event. Too bad for Eagle that it says Eagle on it.

 

[SoberIrishman]

I'm sorry, I forget what PSA stands for.

 

[bafanguy]

I'm sorry, I forget what PSA stands for.

It was formed shortly after WW2 with a DC3 to fly sailors from SAN to OAK or thereabouts, with really hot "stewardesses" as the main attraction. Yes, that was part of the business plan. Some things don't change...and shouldn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines

And for the historians:

http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Sailors-...60116507&sr=8-1&keywords=poor sailors airline

I flew copilot for Capt. Carl "Boots" Elliott, one of the original PSA pilots. P40 and P38 pilot, WW2...South Pacific. I heard the story from him directly. He was there in SAN when someone said, "Hey, why don't we start an airline ?". So, they did.

The airline has a very proud history, largely ignored as most proud histories are, eventually. Most people don't look far enough back into that history to understand where they came from.

I guess times have changed. Sad in a way?

 

[Flyin2low]

Wrong PSA ^^^^^^^

 

[bafanguy]

Wrong PSA ^^^^^^^

Sure about that ? Did you look far enough back into the history ?

You tell me.

 

[Flyin2low]

You looked too far back is the problem.

 

[79%N1]

PSA is former Jetstream Airlines out of Dayton, Ohio. Became PSA when becoming a wholly owned subsidery of USAirways, and took the name of an old airline that was merged into the USAir group....much like Allegheny and Piedmont, having nothing to do with their former namesakes.

 

[bafanguy]

I happily stand corrected, Sirs.