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C. R. Smith
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The DC-3 freed the air lines from complete dependency on government mail pay. It was the first airplane that could make money just by hauling passengers.
C. R. Smith
President American Airlines. The DC-3 specifications were shaped by AA. Quoted in Ceiling Unlimited: The Story of American Aviation From Kitty Hawk to Supersonics, 1953.
We’re going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we’re going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
C. R. Smith
American Airlines, on the introduction of the Boeing 707, in Forbes magazine, 1956.
It may be necessary for the regulatory agency to fix some suitable age for retirement.
C. R. Smith
Chairman of American Airlines, letter to his friend Elwood Quesada, appointed as the FAA's first administrator the year before, regards the pilot's union being against American forcing older pilots to retire. 5 February 1959.
The year before the pilots at American had gone on strike over contract renewal issues and the retirement age. The airline was forced to reinstate the over age 60 pilots. But in June 1959, the FAA initated regulatory change to ban airline flying by pilots at age 60 and above. In 1961, General Quesada retired from the FAA, and was immediately elected to the American Airlines Board of Directors.
Nobody can make money in the goddamn airline business these days. The economics represent sheer hell.
C. R. Smith
Former President of American Airlines, in a Time magazine interview published 19 January 1970.
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