The Six Lives of Braniff International

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Today, we'll be talking about another airline of the past, this time Braniff International, a carrier which traced its roots back to the infancy of air travel, and throughout its lengthy existence was restarted six separate times for various reasons.

Special thanks to Jessica Martin of Braniff International for getting in touch and providing me with additional information relating to both this documentary and regarding the collapse of Braniff International Airways during May 1982.

For clarification, she has confirmed that the footage of Braniff airliners for the first 24 seconds of the video, as well as interspersed throughout the documentary, is Copyright, Braniff Airways, Incorporated, 1926 2022, therefore, the title of 'Unknown' should be considered obsolete.

For information regarding the collapse of Braniff during 1982, she has stated the following to provide an insider view of the final days of the company and its current status:

"There have been many rumors surrounding the cessation of air operations (only air operations ceased, all other subsidiaries and certain departments continued in operation to this day) and one of them is the belief that Mr. Putnam decided to close down the company because of his inability to receive a court injunction concerning a pilot strike. Rest assured that our pilots were not planning to strike and the only possible reason that this rumor may have occurred was because of a possible strike of Pan Am pilots. We were in discussions with both Pan American, Eastern and American concurring the transfer or our Latin America Division.

In a letter to creditors, dated May 17, 1982, Mr. Putnam detailed the exact dates and times of the cessation of air operations complete with explanations and reasons. None of the reasons had anything to do with a pilot strike or any other reason other than certain funds that we were counting on had not arrived and the Load Factor had dropped strangely and without reason down to only 29 percent during the last two weeks of operation. Rumors had begun swirling that we were shutting down as early at May 1, 1982, and those have since been traced back to a competitor."

Once again, I would like to thank Jessica Martin for getting in touch with me, and her additional information relating to the carrier is both enlightening and greatly appreciated.

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References:
- Braniff Boutique (and their respective references)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)