Braniff International Airways

Braniff International

IATA ICAO Callsign BN BNF BRANIFF
Founded	May 29, 1928 (1928-05-29) November 3, 1930 (1930-11-03)
Commenced operations	June 20, 1928 (1928-06-20) November 13, 1930 (1930-11-13)
Ceased operations	May 12, 1982 (1982-05-12) (Only airline operations ceased; all subsidiaries continued in operation. Company is still in operation.)
Hubs	Boston Dallas/Fort Worth (1974–1982) Dallas–Love (1935–1975) Houston–Intercontinental Kansas City Lima Los Angeles Miami
Secondary hubs	Denver–Stapleton Memphis Minneapolis/St. Paul New York–JFK New York–LaGuardia Washington–Dulles
Focus cities	Chicago–O'Hare Guam Hong Kong–Kai Tak Honolulu Newark
Frequent-flyer program	Braniff Travel Bonus Bonanza and Friends of the Orange 747s
Subsidiaries	Braniff Education Systems, Inc. Braniff Realty, Inc. Braniff International Hotels, Inc. Braniff Guardian Services, Inc. Driskill Operating Company Hoteles Internacional, SA de CV Braniff Airways Mexico, SA Braniff Airways Peru, SA
Fleet size	115 (as of December 1979)
Destinations	81 (as of November 1, 1979)
Parent company	Braniff Airways, Inc. (until 1964) Greatamerica Corporation (until 1967) Ling Temco Vought, Inc. (until 1971) Braniff International Corporation (1973–1983) Dalfort Corporation (1983–1988) The Texas Trust/Braniff Trust (1983–present)
Headquarters	Braniff Place World Headquarters, P.O. Box 610646 2200 W. Braniff Boulevard (West Airfield Drive), DFW Airport, Texas, U.S. Braniff International Operations and Maintenance Base 7701 Lemmon Avenue Dallas, Texas, U.S. Braniff Administration and Legal Braniff Building 324 North Robinson Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102 Braniff Airways Foundation and Braniff Boutique 9850 Plano Road, Dallas, Texas 75238
Key people	Charles Edmund Beard Harding Lawrence John J. Casey Howard Putnam Dale R. States Richard B. Cass Collin L. Ice
Founders	Paul Revere Braniff (First CEO) Thomas Elmer Braniff
Website	www.braniffinternational.com

Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965, and then Braniff International from 1965 until air operations ceased, was a United States trunk carrier, a scheduled airline that operated from 1928 until 1982 and continues today as a retailer, hotelier, travel service and branding and licensing company, administering the former airline's employee pass program and other airline administrative duties. Braniff's 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. The airline ceased air carrier operations in May 1982 because of high fuel prices, credit card interest rates and extreme competition from the large trunk carriers and the new airline startups created by the Airline Deregulation Act of December 1978.^[1] Two later airlines used the Braniff name: the Hyatt Hotels-backed Braniff, Inc. in 1983–89, and Braniff International Airlines, Inc. in 1991–92.

In early 2015, the private Irrevocable Trust that owned and administered Braniff's intellectual property and certain other company assets since 1983, released the assets to a private entity associated with the Trust, which founded a series of new Braniff companies that were incorporated in the State of Oklahoma, for historical purposes and for administration of the Braniff trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property. These companies included Braniff Air Lines, Inc., Paul R. Braniff, Inc., Braniff Airways, Inc., Braniff International Hotels, Inc., and Braniff International Corporation. During 2017 and 2018, some of the original Braniff companies were reinstated for historical purposes and administration of Braniff's intellectual property assets including those of Mid-Continent Airlines, Pan American Grace Airways and Long and Harman Airlines, Inc. However, in early 2022, the private Trust that originally owned Braniff's intellectual property since 1983, reacquired these assets along with the original Braniff companies and corresponding assets.^[2]