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May 2023
32m 19s

The World’s First Budget Airline Takes O...

The HISTORY® Channel | Back Pocket Studios
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May 6, 1949. On the runway at Lindbergh Field in San Diego, a scrappy upstart called Pacific Southwest Airlines, PSA, is about to take its first flight. PSA is a budget airline—the world’s first. Other jet age carriers will offer luxury in the sky, but PSA does not. It’s exploiting a loophole in the American flight system to do things very differently. How d ... Show More
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