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A Day in the Life of Pacific Southwest Airlines
In 1949 Kenny Friedkin, with his flashy Hawaiian shirts, was a post-World War II flight instructor in the small and lazy town of San Diego just north of the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Friedkin founded Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in the early spring of 1949 with a $1,000 a month leased Douglas DC-3 aircraft. With the one DC-3 aircraft, PSA started weekly roundtrip service from San Diego to Oakland via Burbank and within two years PSA began flying north to San Francisco. By the early eighties Pacific Southwest Airlines had grown to a major commercial airline carrying more than seven million passengers each year. This is the story of the company and their employees that made PSA a one of a kind and unique airlines. PSA........
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A Day in the Life of Pacific Southwest Airlines
In 1949 Kenny Friedkin, with his flashy Hawaiian shirts, was a post-World War II flight instructor in the small and lazy town of San Diego just north of the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Friedkin founded Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in the early spring of 1949 with a $1,000 a month leased Douglas DC-3 aircraft. With the one DC-3 aircraft, PSA started weekly roundtrip service from San Diego to Oakland via Burbank and within two years PSA began flying north to San Francisco. By the early eighties Pacific Southwest Airlines had grown to a major commercial airline carrying more than seven million passengers each year. This is the story of the company and their employees that made PSA a one of a kind and unique airlines. PSA........
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A Day in the Life of Pacific Southwest Airlines

A Day in the Life of Pacific Southwest Airlines

by Philip C Freedman
A Day in the Life of Pacific Southwest Airlines

A Day in the Life of Pacific Southwest Airlines

by Philip C Freedman

Overview

In 1949 Kenny Friedkin, with his flashy Hawaiian shirts, was a post-World War II flight instructor in the small and lazy town of San Diego just north of the Mexican border town of Tijuana. Friedkin founded Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) in the early spring of 1949 with a $1,000 a month leased Douglas DC-3 aircraft. With the one DC-3 aircraft, PSA started weekly roundtrip service from San Diego to Oakland via Burbank and within two years PSA began flying north to San Francisco. By the early eighties Pacific Southwest Airlines had grown to a major commercial airline carrying more than seven million passengers each year. This is the story of the company and their employees that made PSA a one of a kind and unique airlines. PSA........

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781522945062
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 12/17/2015
Pages: 232
Sales rank: 1,060,676
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.49(d)
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