As an airline nut, I miss most of those airlines. But most of them aren’t here for some operational inefficiencies or bad decisions on how to run the railroad. Pan Am was a stud with all the places they went. They were the “chosen instrument” to get to far flung places and we wouldnt have the 747 without Pan Ams Juan Trippe.
As for Eastern, they were the fun airline and Delta was the businessman’s airline. Eastern went to SXM and the Bahamas for vacation and Delta went to Dallas and Detroit for biz trips.
Same airplanes, same presence in Atlanta, but the efficient horse one the race.
Deregulation didnt help either of them as it revealed their weaknesses.
It would be cool to see them flying though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=pan...biw=736&bih=322#imgrc=8jOhpJNiRlSHoMPan Am probably brought the Jumbo into PJIA first if I had to guess.
