At Mexico City's Central Airport a crowd of 15,000 wildly cheered the landing of a shiny, reconverted Douglas DC-3. The big transport had just made the first flight over Mexico's newest airlineĀAerovias Braniff, S.A.
By modern standards Aerovias would be rated as a puny operation. It has a lone DC-3 in service, another in the shops being converted from an Army transport. Its single line from Mexico City north to Nuevo Laredo on the Rio Grande is only 569 miles long, takes only four and a half hours to fly. It will have...
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