Originally Posted by
WHBM
I think Braniff was the only main line carrier serving Corpus Christi. That's a LOT of stops for the network Braniff had at the time, and pretty fast so they must have been short ones, so if I were in Harding Lawrence's place I'd say what's the best aircraft for quick short stops. Well of course, the One-Eleven. New York, Washington National, Nashville, Memphis, Little Rock, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, then Corpus Christi. Did it go on to Brownsville afterwards ? And I wonder if there was a BN 707 that left New York later and ran non-stop to Dallas, connecting into it.
7. An excellent guess, sir! And Braniff International operating a BAC One-Eleven is
correct!
Your stops are correct as well with the exception of Little Rock as this flight actually stopped in Fort Worth (GSW) following the stop in Dallas. Here's the 1966 sched.....
BN 215: New York Newark (EWR) 5:30p - 6:27p Washington D.C. National (DCA) 6:45p (
EDT) - 6:14p (
CST) Nashville (BNA) 6:34p - 7:17p Memphis (MEM) 7:32p - 8:45p Dallas Love (DAL) 9:15p - 9:29p Fort Worth (GSW) 9:44p - 10:21p Austin (AUS) 10:35p - 10:58p San Antonio (SAT) 11:15p - 11:50p Corpus Christi (CRP)
Op: Daily
Equip: "
JET BAC One-11"
Classes of service: F/Y
Meal service: Dinner DCA-BNA
This flight did not continue on to Brownsville.
Braniff did indeed operate a flight with Boeing equipment that connected to the above flight not once but twice. Here's the sched.....
BN 5: New York (JFK) 6:45p - 8:00p Dallas Love (DAL) 8:45p - 9:35p San Antonio (SAT)
Op: Daily
Equip: "
JET Boeing" (actual aircraft not specified so it may have been either a 707 or 720)
Classes of service: F/Y
Meal service: Dinner JFK-DAL
And there was another mainline air carrier serving Corpus Christi at this time: Eastern. Here's an EA sched from 1965.....
EA 133: New York Newark (EWR) 7:55a - 8:27a Philadelphia (PHL) 8:55a - 9:29a Baltimore (BAL) 10:00a (
EDT) - 10:37a (
EST) Atlanta (ATL) 11:25a (
EST) - 11:36a (
CST) New Orleans (MSY) 12:10p - 1:05p Houston Hobby (HOU) 1:30p - 2:09p Corpus Christi (CRP)
Op: Daily EWR-HOU, Ex. Sat. HOU-CRP
Equip: Boeing 727-100
Classes of service: F/Y
Meal service: Snack in F only EWR-PHL, Snack in F/Y BAL-ATL, Lunch in F/Y ATL-MSY, Snack in F/Y MSY-HOU
It appears that Eastern was the first airline to introduce jet service into Corpus Christi with the 727.