TWA Skyliner Magazine, 1959-10-15

              PUBLISHED    BI-WEEKLY   FOR    TWA    EMPLOYEES
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VOL.    22,    NO.    2 1
OCTOBER   15,   J 959
One Million Fly
Boeing 707's In
Less Than Year
New YoRK-The Boeing 707 this
week boards its millionth passenger since the giant jetliner began commercial operation a year
ago, on October 26, 1958
To date, the five airlines in the
world now flying the 707's have
flown 2,000,000,000 passenger
miles, traveling 25,000,000 miles in
64,000 hours of flying. Sixty 707's
are now in scheduled service. They
serve 25 cities in 10 countries.
TWA has carried more than a
third of the million passengers and
has compiled nearly a third of the
mileage flown. Between March 20,
when TWA inaugurated 707 service, and September 30, TWA's
707's carried 345,000 passengers
more than 686,804,000 passenger
miles.
TWA jets now serve 11 cities in
the United States and next month
will begin flying overseas.
Pray do, Suzie —Spray I
!
TWA Sets New
September Record
New York—Record traffic for
the month of September —31 per
cent greater than a year ago — was
reported in figures released by
TWA last week. A total of 443,-
322,000 revenue passenger miles
were flown over TWA's routes in
the United States, according to E.
O. Cocke, senior vice president and
system general manager.
More than 184,218,000 revenue
passenger miles — or 41 per cent of
the mileage — were flown in TWA's
Boeing 707 jetliners.
Increases also were reported in
mail flown — up 25 per cent; express — up 15 per cent; and freight
— up 6 per cent.
San Francisco—Elephants and airliners usually don't get
together but they did the other day at San Francisco International Airport when Bonnie and Susie reluctantly agreed to
"christen" the inaugural cargo flight of TWA's new fleet of
Super Sky Merchants.
Also on hand but not seen here was TWA hostess Katy Bent
who was scheduled to ride one of the elephants holding a
basket of eggs and thereby illustrating TWA's new cargo
theme: "We Carry Everything from Eggs to Elephants." But
Miss Bent left the picture when Suzie, the smaller elephant,
had to be prodded more than a little bit by trainer Kenneth
Hart of Ring Brothers Circus to get into the spirit of
things. This left TWA's public relations manager (Larry
Murphy, at right) holding the eggs.
In prologue to the ceremonies, two lions, Queenie and
Prince, were fed horsemeat; and two monkeys, Rasmis and
Remus were given raw eggs. They were there because their
cages are part of the truck that brought the elephants.
In the excitement, the announcement that TWA will have
the only single carrier cargo service to major U.S. markets
and European trading centers was not overlooked by news
media in the area. _ _ _
—Larry Murphy
THIS LITTLE PIXIE is Miss Christy Kimber. Her father, who is director of
industrial relations for Ethiopian Air Lines in Addis Ababa, writes that
"the other little girl is a full-grown tiny member of the gazelle family
called a Duiker. We originally named the Duiker Rudolph," he says,
"but for obvious reasons have changed it to Rudolpha (female for Rudolph)."
DSMs Appointed
At DAL and HNL
New York—The appointments of
district sales managers in two key
offline cities—Honolulu and Dallas
—have been announced by L. P.
Marechal, vice president and general sales manager.
Ray Kohler, formerly account
executive in Los Angeles, has been
named to fill the post at Honolulu.
Kohler, who has had experience
overseas in Portugal and Saudi
Arabia, succeeds R. C. Tresise,
who has been appointed DSM at
Cleveland.
L. C. "Memphis" Cole has been
appointed DSM at Dallas. The 25-
year TWA veteran has held various
assignments overseas and in the
United States, and most recently
served in the sales department in
San Francisco.
TWA Bids For Southern
Route With Jet Fleet
Washington — TWA testified before the CAB this week that it
will use pure-jet equipment exclusively if granted unrestricted
operating rights between Florida and California.
Appearing as a witness in the Southern Transcontinental route
case, E. O. Cocke, senior vice president and system general manager, attached primary emphasis to the need for "expedited, streamlined, coast-to-coast service, supported by a good frequency of
service." In meeting these requirements he said TWA was thus
proposing the utilization of jet aircraft exclusively.
Cocke insisted that interchanges
have outlived their usefulness in
the southern transcontinental markets and should be replaced by
one-carrier service.
The extension last year of
TWA's route from St. Louis to
Miami placed TWA in the best
position to provide single carrier
service between Florida and the
West Coast, Cocke said.
He pointed out that TWA has
maintained strong identity not
only in Miami, where it has provided a sales office for 13 years,
but also in the three other major
cities — Dallas, Houston and New
Orleans — which TWA seeks to
link to its southern transcontinental
route.
Approval of its application
would enable TWA to operate
from Miami and Tampa to Los
Angeles and San Francisco on a
more direct "southern" transcontinental route. TWA is presently authorized to fly from Miami
and Tampa to the West Coast
with a mandatory stop at St. Louis.
TWA proposes to schedule five
daily flights from Miami, including
nonstop service to Los Angeles
and one-stop service to San Francisco. Of the five proposed round
trips, three would serve Tampa;
one, New Orleans; two, Houston;
three, Dallas/Ft. Worth; and four,
California. TWA's proposed service
from Louisiana and Texas would
consist of two daily round trips
between New Orleans and California and three each between
Houston and Dallas/Ft. Worth
and the West Coast.
REAL Airlines has broadened its reduced rate policy
to provide TWA employees
with a 75 per cent reduced
rate, positive space on its
routes. REAL serves Miami,
Caracas, Montevideo, and
Buenos Aires. The 75 per
cent reduction applies to
both normal and excursion
fares. It does not apply to
families of employees, who
receive a 50 per cent reduction.
BRIGHT SUNSHINE AND BROAD SMILES suit the occasion as Marcia Val-
ibus, University of Miami coed and former "Miss Florida," helps President
Charles S. Thomas christen the first TWA Boeing 707 jet flight from Miami
to St. Louis and Los Angeles on September 27.