Airport PAST: Early DFW Dallas Ft Worth Intl Airport Finale All Carriers pt 2

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The Final installment of the Airport Past: All Carriers comes in Part 1 & Part 2. The reason is to keep the program at approximately 15 minutes. In this feature, as the title suggest this segment features the carriers not seen in DFW - American Airlines & DFW - Braniff. This is the 2nd part of the final segment contains carriers not seen in the 1st part of segment 3. Enjoy!

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@TexasNorthDFW 4 жыл бұрын

Clipper Empress of the Seas. Oh man. That was the Pan Am flight 73 that was hijacked in 1986.

@Starboard76 4 жыл бұрын

good eye!

@brokenmummy232 Жыл бұрын

That is Gate 24 1:08 - 1:14 with the 727 on it with our old pod loading system (you can see the white pods on the trolleys lined up in the back for the bag runners to load bags into then we brought them up front to the lift loaders) we eventually got rid of the pod system because the front loaders were always breaking down on gates causing delays and then we started free loading everything after that it was such a pain and injuries started going up after that. Right under the camera person's feet was our cabin service area where we dispatched our cleaning and stocking trucks I worked there for several years and on all the gates also. Directly behind the 727 is our DC-10 on gate 23 which was one of our international gates that ran from gate 20 just to the right where the Lufthansa DC-10 is at gate 21 through gate 23 which was the customs area back in the 80-90s. I worked the Luftansa 747 in the evening shift and loaded and unloaded many things like F-16 wings and even tennis star Martina Navratilova Porche she was bringing from Europe I think she won it there and I think it was a Porche 911 Carrera. I started with American in 1987 but in the early days when DFW opened my Dad always flew himself for business and us on Brannif which was the only big competitor to American in the early days at DFW. Eastern shared gates 19 and 20 with us in the early days of my career at American. That Airport has changed so much over the years. It is strange to see the United gate agents pulling double duty and wing walking their 727 back at 9:57 - 10:09 and Pan Am doing the same from 10:52 - 11:02 although it was just the right wing for the guy in the tan suite (pilots left wing). At American, we always had to have 2 wing walkers mandatory.

@Starboard76 Жыл бұрын

Excellent commentary and shared experience you’re exactly the type of person of why I take the time to find these rare clips to do all this - it’s totally worth helping others recall such a critical and awesome era.

@chuckhalen9543 5 жыл бұрын

Outstanding. Another great video release. Loving this channel. Thank you.

@AndrewTubbiolo 5 жыл бұрын

I remember when Concorde came to DFW. The terminal livery for Braniff was the wrong way to go. They should have kept the "flying colors" scheme alive.

@ticoman90 Жыл бұрын

this is a holy grail type of clip

@Tfontaine209 3 жыл бұрын

Wow great video 🤩 never knew Pan Am and Northwest flew big birds to dfw

@darringraham2613 5 жыл бұрын

Best year's of life

@otterman11 5 жыл бұрын

That Braniff takeoff at the end...oh man. Just wished it lasted a few more seconds. Thanks for the awesome videos!

@Starboard76 5 жыл бұрын

You must not have seen the Airport Past: DFW-Braniff ops video...more Braniff 747 action than you can handle plus the very long Airliner Past- A Braniff 747 at Boston, all are here on the channel!

@otterman11 5 жыл бұрын

@@Starboard76 just looked at my history, I only watched the first 30 seconds for some reason. Going there now. I'm a big fan of your channel :)

@Starboard76 5 жыл бұрын

@@otterman11 Right on man!

@DC----be1ld 4 жыл бұрын

Another great ONE Starboard!!!!

@drakbar5957 2 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute…what’s Braniff II doing in an early DFW video? Ya got both of the End of the Plain Plane livery, and the Plain Plane livery. Ol Harding wouldn’t be pleased!

@jjouney 4 жыл бұрын

Truly fabulous! Thank you for sharing. @ 7:32 any idea where the Northwest Orient 747 was going?

@Starboard76 4 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome, my guess is as good as yours, some of the clips I have info on, that one I did not but I recall at the time it was charter not sure of the destination. But I am going to re-color this video to bring out it's true colors. Wait til you see the Northwest Orient 747 at Seoul Kimpo I'm working on, it's a beauty! I also intend to a Northwest Orient fleet vid now that I'm coming across a few NWO 707 clips (not the early design- plenty of those) but with full titles and the dark blue cheatline starting aft the forward door..incredibly hard to find!

@Republic75 4 ай бұрын

The red, white, and blue Braniff wasn't until the eighties!!!

@justplanes295 5 жыл бұрын

Great.

@cameraman655 5 жыл бұрын

AF and BA Concordes, how did Dallas score those birds? If I recall, only JFK in NYC have both Concorde services. Surprised to see so many PA Wide Bodies at DFW, did they have big int'l operations from Dallas?

@Starboard76 5 жыл бұрын

No, no not by any means, not even daily and it did not last long at all.

@frankgrimesification 5 жыл бұрын

I don't know about the DFW SST flights, but I know that periodically there would be around the world charters you could take with the SST. Back in the day when working the ramp at LAS, I would regularly see one of the SST's stop along the way on these trips while they were making the JFK-LAS-HNL segment of the trip.

@boogerpresley6081 4 жыл бұрын

During 1979-80 Braniff had an interchange flight agreement with BA and AF. The Concorde would operate between Dallas/Ft.Worth and Washington Dulles Airport as a Braniff flight with Braniff pilots that were trained by BA and AF. Upon arriving at Dulles the Concorde would be taken over by British or French crews and flown to London or Paris.