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Braniff Airlines incorporates
On this day in 1930, Braniff Airways was incorporated and went public as
a subsidiary of the Universal Air Lines System, with Oklahomans Paul
Braniff as secretary-treasurer and Thomas Braniff as president. In 1934
the airline moved company operations and maintenance facilities to Love
Field, Dallas, from Oklahoma City, and its administrative offices
followed in 1942. The airline was a pioneer in providing air service to
Texas cities. After Thomas Braniff was killed in a plane crash in 1954,
Charles Beard continued to expand the airline's routes. For a time
Braniff was the world's sixth-largest airline. Braniff experienced
severe financial difficulties in the late 1970s and ceased operations in
1982. Two attempts to resurrect the airline in the 1980s and 1990s were
unsuccessful.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BRANIFF AIRWAYS
- BRANIFF, THOMAS ELMER
- BEARD, CHARLES EDMUND
- AVIATION
- LOVE FIELD
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