Originally Posted by
54baldwin
lol not even a close comparison. At peak, Pan Am had 150 jets, not 1000. Wanna guess there peak # of people they moved…. 11 million. UAL moved 165 million people in a year. Even F9 has higher metrics than Pan am when it comes to jets and people moved
You have to consider the times and relative size. All airlines were much smaller back then and can’t be compared to today. The big legacy airlines only had around 500 aircraft, so relatively speaking Eastern, Pan Am, and Braniff shutting the doors would be considered big players and too big to fail but they’re all gone.