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This 4 page paper looks at the history of the airline that had problems since the 1970s. The paper evaluates why Eastern went bankrupt after having been a leader in the industry. Many factors are considered. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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It carried airmail in open-cockpit planes, and Eastern Airlines had grown to be the free worlds largest airline in terms of the number of passengers boarded and in
respect to the number of takeoffs and landings it offered (PG). Eastern Airlines was an industry mainstay. It was a sad day when the company went bankrupt more than a
half century later, but the airline was not alone in an industry that experienced a multitude of problems. Eastern had been officially launched on
May 1, 1928 , when five airmen flew one night in a 200-horsepower open-cockpit Mailwing airplane (Sandvig PG). The story began two years before that when the U.S. Government invited
competitive bids for contracts in order to secure transportation for mail between New York and Atlanta (PG). Harold F. Pitcairn manufactured aircraft for county fair exhibits and owned a landing
field near Philadelphia (PG). He had filed a bid to carry mail at only $3 per pound (PG). In 1927, the government did award Pitcairn Aviation a 595-mile
route between Atlanta and Miami (PG). Pitcairn found himself in possession of the eastern airline, and had come through with an airplane to meet contract requirements (PG). However, the inauguration
of schedules had been delayed a number of times awaiting installation of airway beacons, and on May 1, 1928, two northbound flights took off from Atlanta (PG). Another took
off from Greensboro and two southbound schedules would come from the New York area (PG). It was as early as 1928 that service had been
initiated between Atlanta and Miami through Jacksonville , something that would complete the New York-Miami air link (Sandvig PG). This also gave Florida its first domestic air service, and
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