Texas International Airlines
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Texas International Airlines Inc. was a local service carrier, a scheduled airline in the United States, known from 1940 until 1947 as Aviation Enterprises, until 1969 as Trans-Texas Airways, and as T
Texas International Mc Donnell Douglas DC 9 31 N1310T 01
Promotional postcard for Trans-Texas Airways
A Texas International Airlines DC-9-15 at Los Angeles International Airport
A Texas International Airlines Convair CV-600 at Dallas/Fort Worth, 1973
Frank Lorenzo
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Francisco Anthony "Frank" Lorenzo is an American businessman and former airline executive who played a prominent role in the U.S. airline industry during the era of deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s
Texas International Airlines
…8:34 p.m. After suffering annual losses of up to $3 million, Texas International was acquired in 1972 by Jet Capital Corporation headed by 32-year-old Frank Lorenzo. The airline quickly realized a $6 million profit, largely due to wage cuts spearheaded by Lorenzo and sharp marketing efforts. In the mid-1970s, in…
Frank Lorenzo in 2012
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 of National Airlines at London Heathrow Airport in 1974.
DC-9-32 of New York Air
Continental Boeing 747 at Los Angeles in 1987.