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Anyone have any good suggestions on books detailing the history of each major/legacy airline? Looking for info that might help job hunters get a good back story on what the culture, history and principles of each airline is. Perhaps provide extra ammo in an interview when the "Why us?" question is asked.

Delta: Glory Lost and Found

FedEx: The World on Time

United: ?

American: ?

UPS: ?

Southwest: ?

Hard Landings

The removal of passengers.

Not really relevant to these airlines, but Skygods about Panam is a great read.

This one is excellent. I sure wish that guy would do a sequel that picked up where the book left off (mid-late 90s I think?). So much has happened since then.

Can we get a wind check? And its just light chop.

And we have Captain Jorrrrrrr-guh/“Hollywood”

Tom Hanks has a part in a movie about us.

We’re busy Un-Jeffing ourselves and arguing about calling a 737 a guppy when we’re not beating people up and dragging them off.

Half of us feel we saved TWA, the other half are still ****ed off about the Nicolau

We wear brown uniforms while cash our giant pay checks.

We had our own show about us. If you get a chance to ride on a Friday night BUR-LAS “stripper flight”, do it

Agreed.

There could also easily be a “Flying the Line” Volumes 3-5.

For Southwest read NUTS! It's about how the company got started. Not only informative but also very entertaining.

UAL: “The Golden Goose”. (It’s what Dubinsky wanted to choke.) :D

“Eagle” by Robert J. Serling, good read about AA circa 1985.

For one of the many forerunners of American, Trans World Airlines (TWA) which was the face of United States aviation on east west routes around the world in the 1950s-1970s (Pan Am was the face in Latin America), I recommend:

Trans World Airlines A Book of Memories by Jon Proctor.