Twelve Big Ideas - United Airlines: Fly The Friendly Skies of United
Dewitt L. Jones
The subject of today's session is "The Big Idea".
The company I am going to talk about is United Air Lines.
When you put these two together, the biggest idea of all took place one morning in April in 1926 when a fragile bi-plane lifted from the ground at Pasco, Washington, and headed for Boise, Idaho. For this was the first commercial flight of a company called Boeing Air Transport, one of the four air lines which were to become United Air Lines, which was...