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People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey.
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Texas Air Corporation, also known as Texas Air, was an airline holding company in the United States, incorporated in June 1980 by airline investor Frank Lorenzo to hold and invest in airlines. The company had its headquarters in the America Tower in the American General Center in Houston, Texas .
It was founded in 1985 by Harold J. (Hap) Pareti, formerly an officer at People Express Airlines, known as PEOPLExpress a low-cost carrier, with Boeing 737-200 service from Washington Dulles to Boston Logan in Massachusetts commencing October 10 of that year. A small fleet of B737-200 jetliners were initially operated by the airline.
In fact, the first flight attendants were male, usually the sons of airline financiers known as "cabin boys," according to Society Pages. The shift to more female-friendly skies occurred in the 1930s.
Prior to this milestone, Rippelmeyer had been involved with transatlantic flights as a flight attendant and as a B-747 pilot for the cargo airline, Seaboard World Airlines in 1980–1981. The 1984 People Express flight was the first time a woman held the reins as Captain of this flight.
In one famous example during the 1980s, Robert Crandall, then the head of American Airlines, bragged about how removing just one olive from every salad saved the airline $40,000 a year.
On Aug. 2, 1985, around 6:05 p.m., the Delta Air Lines Flight 191 from Florida to Los Angeles with 163 people aboard crashed short of the runway at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and ...