Category:Braniff International Airways

Braniff International Airways 1966 logo
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Braniff International Airways was an American airline that operated from 1928 until 1982. Its routes were primarily in the midwestern and southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. In the late 1970s it expanded to Asia and Europe. By 1966, the old livery of red, white, blue was dropped in favor of a single color on each plane, selected from a palette of bright hues like "Chocolate Brown" and "Metallic Purple” and a small "BI" logo added white wings and tails. The new "jelly bean" fleet carried such colors as beige, ochre, orange, turquoise, baby blue, medium blue, lemon yellow, and lavender. In 1973 Alexander Calder was commissioned by Braniff to paint an aircraft. His contribution was a Douglas DC-8 known simply as Flying Colors of South America and operated in 1975, and a Boeing 727 named Flying Colors of the United States" to commemorate the Bicentennial of the United States in 1976. The airline ceased operations in May 1982 because high fuel prices and the Airline Deregulation Act of December 1978 rendered it uncompetitive.

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See also

• Braniff International Airways at Wikipedia