zak wrote:
> "Reef Fish" wrote:
>
> >
> >nobody wrote:
> >> Eastern Airlines was bought by Pan Am. Pan Am was bought by TWA. TWA was
> >> absorbed by a giant black hole and has not been since since. They're all
> >> gone now, sucked into vaccum, with all their assets transformed into
> >> energy and beamed to a distant galaxy in a different dimension.
> >
> >With one exception.
> >
> >The name of the Frequent Flyer Program used by Eastern, OnePass,
> >survived the Black Hole and had been adopted by CO.
>
> The name of the original Eastern program, started in 1981, was simply
> Frequent Traveler Bonus Program. One Pass came later. I still have
> the FTBP coupon booklet from when I joined in 1981. Back then you had
> to tear off one coupon for each flight and fill in your flight
> information and turn it in when you checked in for your flight, as
> there was no web booking or online check-in back then. :)
>
> You could use your miles for awards on Eastern, Hertz, General,
> Marriott, British Caledonian, SAS, and TWA. Many people blew their
> miles on TWA's flight from New York to Bombay with stops in Paris and
> Cairo. Having had friends who did it and reported on the miserable
> conditions of the passenger cabin, especially the toilets, by the time
> they got to Cairo, I decided to blow my miles on several trips to
> London on British Caledonian instead. Much nicer, cleaner planes.
> And the Caledonian girls were much more pleasant than TWA's surly
> matrons.
Thanks for filling in the incredibly detailed info!
I wasn't really a "Frequent Flyer" in any sense of the word, but
I do remember the One Pass originated there.
"online check-in"? LOL!
The internet "web" thing had such an EXPLOSIVE growth (bigger than
teh Big Bang ) that today there's hardly ANYTHING you couldn't
do on-line or find out the info about from internet searches.
It all happened from about virtually ZERO to MUCHO
in a couple of years, in the late 1990s.
I've been actively on the "online" scene since I co-authored
two entire BOOKS (with my co-author in Chicago while I was
800 miles away). :-)
The books have long been obsolete, because one was a Computer
Manual for a system I wrote, and the system was purchased by
SPSS, and shelved (so that it would not compute against the
on-line system SPSS was beginning to develop), in the late
1970s. :-) The other was a textbook on Statistics, using
that system, that had been used by many major universities.
So, they were obsolete by the EARLY 1980s. I was surprised (via
web browsing) to find that they ARE still on sale, in Amazon.com,
with individual full-page ad for each.
McGraw Hill (1980) ISBN 007037905X was "available from $24.99".
McGraw Hill (1982) ISBN 0070379068 was "available from $105.79"
Take it from the co-author. They are "worth" about the price
of one share of Delta (DAL) which I got on-line a minute ago,
selling at $0.78. :)
On-line information and computing have gone a LONG WAY!
-- Bob.
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