Pan Am wanted a merger. Logical enough. But then they drifted into this seeming mania of some merger, any merger.https://books.google.com/books?id=G...th-south routes were running in the "&f=false
' . . . On top of everything else, National's north-south routes were running in the wrong direction to give Pan Am the passenger feed it needed to Asia and Europe. . . '
That's going to require some major changes as IIRC the Pan Am security, they were privately hired by the airline who charged customers extra for the service, at Frankfurt airport were completely inept - it was complete security theatre simply to help reassure the customers/be used as a selling point.Terrorists have their bomb detected by Pan-Am security, and they get good PR in 1988.
That's going to require some major changes as IIRC the Pan Am security, they were privately hired by the airline who charged customers extra for the service, at Frankfurt airport were completely inept - it was complete security theatre simply to help reassure the customers/be used as a selling point.
Earlier deregulation maybe? If Pan Am isn't dealing with multiple crises in the immediate run up to deregulation, it might let them go into it in a stronger position.Make a point of granting Pan Am some of the domestic route authorities they requested? That was the whole reason they went merger-crazy in the first place: the former domestic carriers were granted international route authorities, but Pan Am was refused any domestic route authorities.
But would that require an underlying political PoD some time earlier?