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25 unusual facts about United Airlines


Arturo Kinch

Arturo Kinch (born 15 April 1956) is a customer service representative for United Airlines who has won fame for his inspiring performances as Costa Rica's only skier in Winter Olympic Games history, most recently as a 49-year-old cross-country skier in the 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games.

Boeing School of Aeronautics

Commercial pilot training was suspended to customer United Airlines to meet wartime demand in August that year.

Bovingdon stack

An air traffic controller was blamed by a later enquiry for misdirecting traffic when he ordered a United Airlines Boeing 777 into a level of the Bovingdon Hold (or stack) already occupied by a similar British Airways plane.

British Aerospace Jetstream 41

Atlantic Coast Airlines - aircraft operated as United Express providing passenger feed service on behalf of major air carrier partner United Airlines.

Caesar's Chariot

Caesar's Chariot was a former United Airlines Boeing 707 passenger jet which was chartered by English rock band Led Zeppelin for their 1977 concert tour of North America.

Charles E. Beatley

After retiring from United Airlines, Beatley ran again for mayor at the urging of local Republicans and Democrats, was elected in a landslide, and served until 1985.

David Cornwall

Returning to Denver, he worked a systems engineer for United Airlines while performing for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra (then known as the Denver Businessmen's Orchestra) and studying under its conductor, Antonia Brico.

Doug Berndt

Following his skating career, Berndt was a flight attendant with United Airlines.

Doug Parker

Under his tenure as CEO, he made an unsuccessful bid to merge US Airways with Delta Air Lines in 2007, and with United Airlines in 2010.

Dwight Chapin

Chapin resigned to work as an executive for United Airlines, but was drawn back into the swirl of Watergate legal proceedings.

Harold A. Linstone

He has been a consultant to many organizations, including the US House of Representatives, State of Alaska oil Spill Commission, Alberta Economic Development Commission, and UN Asian-Pacific center for Technology Transfer, as well as corporations such as IBM and United Airlines.

History of aviation in Pittsburgh

The first five airlines of the Greater Pittsburgh Airport were TWA, Capital Airlines (later part of United Airlines), Northwest, All American (later it become Allegheny Airlines, USAir, and finally US Airways), and Eastern Airlines.

Karen D. Beyer

Beyer lives in Lower Saucon Township, with her husband, a pilot with United Airlines and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, and their three children.

Kate Linder

In addition to her work on television, Linder serves as a flight attendant for United Airlines.

Liz Myers

They have arranged and produced the music for several commercials for United Airlines, one of which, "A Life", is a part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art.

Menehune

United Airlines used the Menehune in brand advertising for their service to Hawaii in the 1970s through the 1980s.

Pauline Crawley

After that, Crawley took an employment with United Airlines before deciding to return to the AAGPBL without a guaranteed contract.

Racial profiling

He filed a lawsuit on the basis of discrimination against United Airlines.

Richard Schull

He did a memorable and often-played commercial spot for United Airlines, as a constantly griping customer, whose every complaint is deftly solved by the flight attendant, and who surprisingly tells her on arrival that he had "a very nice flight!"

Robert S. Smith

In private practice, Smith was best known for representing a shopping center in a case, Shad Alliance v. Smith Haven Mall, that established that the right of free speech does not apply in shopping centers; for representing United Airlines' pilots' union in its attempt to take over United Airlines; and for arguing two death penalty appeals before the United States Supreme Court.

Ron Karkovice

When Karkovice was seven years old, his family moved to Florida after his father, who worked for United Airlines, was transferred.

Sons of Maxwell

In July 2009 the band became an international media sensation when they released the country-style song and music video "United Breaks Guitars," explaining how after United Airlines personnel damaged their musical instruments, the airline refused to take responsibility or give compensation for the loss.

Teófilo Stevenson

In 1999, Stevenson was arrested at Miami International Airport when, before boarding a United Airlines chartered jet that would take the Cuban national boxing team home, he allegedly headbutted a 41 year old United Airlines ticket counter employee, causing him to break his teeth.

Villahermosa

Airlines providing flights to/from the airport are: Aeromexico, Interjet, United, VivaAerobus, and previously by the defunct Mexicana de Aviación.

William Burton Roy

After retiring from active duty, Roy worked as a commercial airline pilot for United Airlines flying Boeing 747s.


Air Transportation Stabilization Board

The ATSB denied applications from nine carriers: Ozark Airlines dba Great Plains Airlines, MEDjet International, Corporate Airlines, Gemini Air Cargo, Frontier Flying Service, Spirit Airlines, National Airlines, and both initial and revised applications from United Airlines and Vanguard Airlines.

Airmails of the United States

Operated by Varney Air Lines (which later became part of United Airlines), the first Eastbound flight over CAM-5 was made successfully using a Laird Swallow biplane piloted by Leon D. Cuddeback.

Antigua

The island's single airport is served by several major airlines, including Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, US Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Caribbean Airlines, Air Canada, WestJet and LIAT.

Aviation in Delaware

New castle county airport in northern Delaware is the state's only commercial airport and has seen prior service from airlines including Delta, and United and Skybus.

Coastal Carolina Regional Airport

Craven Regional Airport has previously been serviced by Midway Airlines, American Eagle, Piedmont Airlines, Charter Express, United Airlines, Wheeler Airline, Henson Airlines and National Airlines.

Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

Future Air Navigation System

United Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qantas, and Air New Zealand approached the Boeing Company in 1993 and requested that Boeing support the development of a FANS capability for the 747-400 airplane.

Harvey Hancock

After ten years of news, Hancock changed careers from journalism to the airline industry by taking a management position with United Airlines and Pan American World Airways.

Hayden, Colorado

Hayden is one of the smallest communities in the U.S. to have mainline passenger jet service provided by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines on a scheduled basis, if only during the winter months when the ski season is underway in nearby Steamboat Springs.

Mark Tatge

At Forbes, Tatge wrote profiles and interviewed chief executives at many top 100 U.S. corporations, including Boeing, Motorola, United Airlines, 3M, AT&T, US Airways, Delta Air Lines, Best Buy and FedEx.

Naval Air Station Oakland

After the war, airlines slowly returned to Oakland: Western Airlines began flights in 1946, and was followed by American Airlines, TWA, United and Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).

Norwegian Air Lines

Egil Gløersen was sent to the United States to study the operations of United Airlines and Northwest Airlines.

Pitt County, North Carolina

The airport and local officials are in discussion with United Airlines and its regional partner, Colgan Air, to provide 2 daily flights between PGV and Washington Dulles International Airport.

Sacramento Executive Airport

Aircraft included Martin 4-0-4s and Fairchild F-27s (on Pacific Air Lines), Lockheed L-188 Electras (on Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Western Airlines), Boeing 727-100s (on PSA and United Airlines) and Boeing 720Bs (on Western); Western had one B720B nonstop a day to LAX.

Stratesec

At IPO in 1997, Securacom listed among its clients Washington Dulles International Airport, Hewlett-Packard, EDS, United Airlines, Gillette, MCI, the World Trade Center, and other facilities including hospitals, prisons, corporations, utilities, universities.

Tachikawa air disaster

The 129-person death toll remained the highest-ever aviation fatality count, commercial or military, until 1960, when 134 died in the collision of a United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation over New York City.

United Airlines Flight 2885

The aircraft involved in the accident, a 14-year-old Douglas DC-8-54 (registration number N8053U), departed Chicago O'Hare International Airport at 22:15 CST on January 10, 1983, operating United Airlines Flight 2894 bound for Cleveland, Ohio.