Description: Vintage art photos of the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 flying under the flagship banner of Midway Airlines’ business express Metrolink which flew from Chicago to New York. This image most likely used for advertising/shareholder/ marketing purposes. Rare find. Good condition, measures 8 x 10. Provenance McDonnell Douglas. About Midway: Midway Chair/CEO Arthur Bass was part of the founding management, and a former president, of Federal Express. Bass hired Neal Meehan, founding CEO of New York Air, as president. They aimed to make Midway Airport the favored airport of the Chicago business traveler, similar to New York LaGuardia or Dallas Love Field. Midway Airport, at the time, had no jetways, and suffered from a lack of maintenance on the part of the city. Bass and Meehan instituted “Metrolink” branded all-business class service, with four-abreast seating, a “business center” at Midway airport, jetways and other amenities. Florida service, which Linkon started, was dropped. Midway Express 737-200 at Miami, October 1984 Metrolink failed. 1983 and 1984 financial results were poor, with losses greatly exceeding the cumulative profits of 1981 and 1982. Meanwhile, in 1984, reacting to a proposal from Air Florida executives, Midway acquired, in stages, the remains of that bankrupt carrier. There were two attractions (1) winter demand to offset the seasonality of the Metrolink system and (2) Air Florida’s slots at airports like LaGuardia and Washington National. The deal nominally cost Midway $53mm, most of that ($35mm) for three Air Florida 737-200 aircraft. In fact, Midway never paid for the airplanes, passing them to a lessor to purchase and leasing them back. Midway provided working capital to get the remains of Air Florida back in the air in October 1984, which flew under contract to Midway (with Midway marketing and selling tickets) as “Midway Express” until August 1985, when the Air Florida purchase closed and Midway Express shifted to full Midway Airlines branding.
Price: 23 USD
Location: Reno, Nevada
End Time: 2024-12-02T01:49:21.000Z
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Type: Photographs
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
