Hughes Airwest one of the original Low Cost Carriers (LCC) from the 1970s
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- čas přidán 1. 12. 2020
- Hughes Airwest largely depended on aircraft types the Fokker F-27, various DC-9 models from the DC-9-20 to the DC-9-30 and the Boeing 727-200. All seen here.
The Yellow Banana was one of the many names given Hughes Airways. Hughes AIrwest was simply Air West after a merger of three local carriers, West Coast Airlines, Pacific Air Lines and Bonanza Air Lines. Then came multi-millionaire Howard Hughes, the former owner of TWA, buying the newly formed Air West and thus the eponymous label of Hughes Airwest.
I myself managed a couple of trips on RW (their code back then) on flights from SFO to Phoenix and it had an easy going PSA-like mystique about it.
Someone had to bring them back so here it is, Hughes Airwest. - Věda a technologie
I worked for Hughes Airwest as a flight attendant in 1974. We went thru merger with Republic, Northwest and Delta. I flew for 43 years. Hughes was the best of any airline. It was always fun back then to go to work. Management was awesome and treated the employees so well. Back then passengers knew how to dress and be respectful. A lot of good memories working for Hughes
You speak the truth...and my how sad things have gotten since.
Ahhh, this is a wonderful video of good ole RW, Hughes Air West. I loved the sounds of those Pratt and Whitney engines! Also the Dartts of the F 27 and FH227Bs were a joy to hear again. I especially liked the Boeing 727 200 pulling into the gate!! I remember the days of standing at the change link fence at my home airport holding my hands over my ears when these planes would pull into the gate....just love it!!
Great footage of the three holer taxiing to the gate, shutting the JT8D engines down
I flew that airline many times up and down the west coast between Washington and California. The DC-9's and the F-27. I liked those F-27 for short hops. They were really comfortable planes. Back in the day, you always got a meal, even for a short flight between San Francisco and Washington state.
Luv those ’Flying Bananas’.
Top banana in the west!
Epic , the Hughes 727-200 wow ;-)
Thank you, I grew up in socal and this brought back fond memories. Cheers
Very welcome Chris
Hughes was not a low cost carrier. We were a regional and had a cost structure (csm) not unlike the majors. A PSA or AirCal we were not. That being said I LOVE the video. You brought back some delightful memories. I worked for them in LMT, SCK, SLC & SEA. Good times.
Thanks for viewing, I'm not sure what you did at HW but as someone owned a few travel agencies (selling) and flew each of them frequently..those 3 had steady fares which were far far below what one would find versus United, Continental, Western and Frontier charge on competitive routes.
@@Starboard76 Sorry but you are incorrect. Fares charged by RW on competitive routes with carriers like UA, AA, WA & TW were the same as dictated by the fare structures set forth by the CAB, we were regulated. Fares on non-competitive routes flown with F-27s were even higher. In the late '70s, RW began offering Business Class. It was extremely rare when you would find RW trying to compete in markets flown by carriers like PSA and AirCal, they were the low-cost carriers, not RW.
@@tjbailey29820 take a look...www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk02Wpj2ukDMoUdp1yhZkvjE8qULVEQ:1622333079845&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=Hughes+Airwest+banana+fares&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi3mbnXjfDwAhULn-AKHaITAAIQjJkEegQIFhAB&biw=1635&bih=885#imgrc=KCPjjMVlEMkfAM
@@tjbailey29820 That's just one example..there was quite a few deals coming from HW on the most competitive routes but it was widely known at the time that they made up for the low promotional fares by charging an arm n' a leg on those F-227 routes. Like I said, I sold them and others because my clientele was mostly students shopping for the lowest fares. I don't know where you were but I know what I was selling.
@@Starboard76 I was right there as a District Sales Manager selling the advantages of RW to travel agents like you and I can assure you that RW was NOT a low cost airline, PSA and Air Cal were low cost airlines. Yes, we had promotional fares occasionally but they had to be approved by the CAB and all other interstate carriers were permitted by the CAB to match them. Our resurrection of Business Class in 1977 was chronicled here earlier, sorry you missed it. We never flew F-227s, only F-27s, and the fares on those aircraft that operated out of many remote cities provided otherwise unavailable air transportation. Those fares were based on the formula set forth by the CAB for First Class travel and they were often not charged when the passenger's ticket included travel from other major cities, they were known as Joint fares. If you were a good travel agent, you would have known that!
Top Banana in the West
The Boeing 727 was one of my personal favorites. Very happy to see one in this magnificent video!
It was so LOUD !
RW Hughes Air West was not a low cost carrier but a high quality airline with pride and with hot breakfast meal and great service on their Douglas DC9-15RC LAX-YEG morning flight. December 1980 almost 42 years ago. Always in my memory miss RW from Australia. Glad I had the opportunity to fly RW yellow jet!
Ansett 727.
Loved Braniff to wierd colors on there A/C
My dad and i called them flying bananas when we would be at phoenix sky harbor
The left main landing gear on that Burbank landing looked very hot.... observe the smoke trail.
Was that terminal 1 at PHX? If it is, it’s great to see existing footage of it!
Believe or not...that is indeed, flew there several times.
Hughes Airwest wasn't a low cost carrier. The local service carriers, as they were called then, often had better service than the major airlines. I flew Hughes Airwest several times and even flights of one hour or 90 minutes often had full meal service.
There were no LCC 'officially' back then, but Hughes, PSA and Air Cal were the go-to carriers in the sense that you were more than likely to find cheaper fares on these three versus the bigger players in every competitive market. Meal service wasn't necessarily a defining trait of who was cast an LCC and who wasn't, it was the typical fare cost - being in 'the business' at the time, we knew who to go to for savings.
@@Starboard76 I agree PSA and Air Cal were the closest equivalents to today's LCCs before deregulation since they were then strictly intrastate carriers with routes only within California. Since they had no operations outside Caliornia then they weren't subject to federal (Civil Aeronautics Board) regulations that closely regulated fares. Hughes Airwest and its predecessors weren't intrastate carriers and were subject to the same federal regulations on what they could charge as the major airlines, except between points in California. After deregulation in 1979, fares became a free-for-all everywhere.
@@viscount757 Exactly, the CAB de-reg was 1978 got into many scrapes about that one. But yeah, there was a stigma about 'cheap airlines' in those days and it continued to be a negative 'label' when cheap Southwest Airlines started going everywhere (Wright Amend) I recall swearing never set foot on a WN flight - boy have they stepped up and 'owned' it into a successful marketing ploy.
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