On January 10, 1954, Thomas E. Braniff died when a flying boat owned by United Gas crash-landed on the shore of Wallace Lake, 15 miles outside of Shreveport, Louisiana due to icing.

Paul R. Braniff died later that year of cancer.

Braniff International already had International service to South America and Mexico in 1974, London in 1978 and Europe and Asia in 1979.

In 1935 Braniff became the first airline to fly from Chicago, to the U. S .- Mexico border.

New Mexico architect Alexander Girard, Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci, and shoe designer Beth Levine were called in, and with this new creative talent, Braniff began the " End of the Plain Plane " campaign.

A large amount of land in this area belonged to a man named Alberto Braniff, who provided it to establish Mexico City ’ s first private airstrip in 1909, which became the Aeropuerto Central de la Ciudad de México in 1943.

Braniff was born in a wealthy and powerful family in Mexico during the Porfirio Diaz era.

His father was the industrial Thomas Braniff, who came to Mexico to build the Veracruz railroad.

Years before Braniff was born, a prominent Mexico City newspaper had predicted that it would be impossible to fly to that city because of its high altitude and thin air.

The exact year remains unclear, but most historical articles report that Braniff flew his airplane over Mexico City between 1908 and 1910.

In 1929, Paul Revere Braniff left the United States to go to Mexico to help someone build a struggling Mexican airline company ( apparently this person was Alberto Braniff, but no evidence of this, nor of Alberto Braniff being related to the American Braniff brothers, has ever been reported ).

Paul Revere Braniff remained in Mexico until 1930.

While in Mexico, he gained airline industry expertise, and he returned to the United States with innovative ideas for Braniff International, including the use of faster aircraft ,.

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

** Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board.

* August 6 – Braniff Flight 250, a BAC 1-11-203AE, encounters severe turbulence when it enters an active squall line and crashes near Falls City, Nebraska, after losing its right wing, right stabilizer, and tailfin.

* On August 6, 1966, Braniff Airways Flight 250 left Kansas City Downtown Airport headed for Omaha and crashed near Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

When, on the way to bankruptcy, Eastern Airlines closed their hub at Kansas City ( MCI ), Air Midwest sold their Saab 340A aircraft and signed a new codeshare agreement with the second incarnation of Braniff Airlines, which had just established a small hub at MCI, and once again began to offer flights to Kansas City on Fairchild Metroliner III turboprop aircraft.

On August 6, 1966, Braniff Airways Flight 250 left Kansas City Downtown Airport headed for Eppley and crashed near Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board.

This angered the City of Fort Worth, DFW International Airport, and Braniff International Airways, which resented expanded air service at the airport within Dallas.

Braniff Airlines began offering two daily departures to Kansas City to carry passengers and cargo in 1944.

* On August 22, 1954, Braniff Airlines flight 4630 Douglas DC-3 crashed south of Mason City Municipal Airport after departing Waterloo Regional Airport in nearby Waterloo, Iowa.

Other airlines that previously served Shreveport included Braniff International flying Boeing 727-200 jetliners as well as British Aircraft Corp. BAC One-Eleven jets nonstop to New Orleans and direct to Kansas City, Tulsa, Chicago and Minneapolis / St Paul.

A grant from the Blakley-Braniff Foundation established the Braniff Graduate School in 1966 and allowed the construction of the Braniff Graduate Center.

Alberto Braniff ( 1884 – 1966 ) was a Mexican airplane pilot.

* May 3 – Braniff Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas killing all 85 persons on board.

** Braniff International Airways is declared bankrupt and ceases all flights.

Many companies complied, including Northrop Grumman, 3M, American Airlines and Braniff International Airways.

Between 1978 and mid-2001, nine major carriers ( including Eastern, Midway, Braniff, Pan Am, Continental, America West Airlines, and TWA ) and more than 100 smaller airlines went bankrupt or were liquidated — including most of the dozens of new airlines founded in deregulation's aftermath.

Braniff International Airways Chairman Harding L. Lawrence was skeptical of Airline Deregulation as a whole.

Braniff was the first major carrier to file for bankruptcy protection after the industry was deregulated.

Lawrence was bold in his moves in trying to grow Braniff to a very large carrier and also try to find a merger partner.

At its mildest this can appear as a " buzz " in the aircraft structure, but at its most violent it can develop uncontrollably with great speed and cause serious damage to or lead to the destruction of the aircraft, as in Braniff Flight 542.

In 1990, the airline moved into the new Terminal 4 and also took delivery of several Airbus A320 aircraft destined for the now-defunct Braniff Airways.

Braniff had itself purchased the original aircraft order rights from Pan Am, another troubled carrier, and the A320s were sold to America West at a steep discount.

The livery reminded the public of Braniff International Airways because of the many different colors used.

* Braniff International Airways, connected Havana to the north with Houston, Texas, and to the south with Panama and other South American countries, such as Ecuador, Perú, Colombia, Argentina and others, with DC-6 equipment.

In the past, it has been a hub for Braniff International Airways, Eastern Air Lines, Air Florida, the original National Airlines, the original Pan Am, United Airlines, and Iberia.

Two other Texas Air Corporation affiliates joined Eastern during the 1980s: Concourse D was also used by Braniff International Airways for Latin American operations up until their shutdown in 1982, and Continental Airlines used gates on the west side of the concourse during the 1980s.

Braniff Flight 542 crashed in Buffalo on September 29, 1959.

It was the first of five Boeing 707s destined for delivery to Braniff International Airways.

A Boeing test pilot and Braniff Captain were killed in an emergency landing after three of the aircraft's four engines were torn off during a training maneuver.

Ed Acker, formerly CEO of Braniff International Airlines, led an acquisition of Air Florida in 1975 and expanded the airline into the interstate market following the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978.

) Braniff International Airways, presented a campaign known as the " Air Strip " with similarly attractive young stewardesses changing uniforms mid-flight.

The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 316 weekday departures: 95 Eastern ( plus six flights a week to / from South America ), 77 American, 61 Capital, 23 National, 17 TWA, 10 United, 10 Delta, 6 Allegheny, 6 Braniff, 5 Piedmont, 3 Northeast and 3 Northwest.

Among the airlines that had models released by Dyna-Flites included FedEx, Delta Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, Pan Am, TWA and Braniff.

The airfield was served by Braniff and Eastern Airlines.