A short course in Railroading ... For Airline executives (by Southern Pacific 1946)

[Miningman]

You need to get your head read to fly these days... and back then as well!

[BaltACD]

Airlines have advanced to the point that on many carriers - the 1st Checked Bag is within 50 cents of the computed round trip LA-SF quoted fare.

[Jones1945]

This advertisement was found in LIFE ( 23 Sep 1946 )

Competition between Railroads and Airlines turned white-hot after the WW II. Limited capacity of early civil aircraft didn’t allow the Airline to further decrease the ticket fares, but later when larger and faster airplanes were available, even the fare was no longer a competitive weapon of railroads. Long distance flight service became the new mainstream travel method globally, a nonreversible trend……

 

We know the rest is history......

Did our fallen flags put enough effort to save the passenger train business?

What would you do, if you were the CEO of the fallen flags and you have one chance to rewrite history?

Please feel free to express your thought! 

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