{"id":2411,"date":"2016-04-07T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2016-04-07T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T01:08:02","slug":"happy-90th-birthday-united-airlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/happy-90th-birthday-united-airlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 90th Birthday, United Airlines!"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In the 1920s, prior to United Airlines being United Airlines, Boeing operated an airline called United Air Lines<\/li>\n<li>Chicago O&#8217;Hare is United&#8217;s largest hub in terms of departures, but they move more people through their hub at Houston Intercontinental<\/li>\n<li>In 1994, United&#8217;s pilots, machinists, bag handlers and non-contract employees acquired 55% of company stock in exchange for 15\u201325% salary concessions, making the carrier the largest employee-owned corporation in the world at that time<\/li>\n<li>In 1933 the acquisition of the first all-metal airplane, the Boeing 247, allowed United to fly coast to coast in 20 hours, slightly ahead of other airlines<\/li>\n<li>When United moved its headquarters to the Willis Tower in Chicago, some of the floors weren&#8217;t connected via elevator, making it necessary to take one elevator to connect to another elevator<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy Carter used a leased United plane nicknamed &#8220;&#8221;Peanut One&#8221;&#8221; on the campaign trail in 1976<\/li>\n<li>United expanded dramatically by purchasing Pan Am&#8217;s entire Pacific Division in 1985 and its routes to London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport in 1991<\/li>\n<li>Among the former airlines now a part of United are Frontier (the original one), People Express, New York Air, Air Micronesia, and Texas Air<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hub.united.com\/united-innovation-firsts-1710267056.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for more United Airlines firsts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1920s, prior to United Airlines being United Airlines, Boeing operated an airline called United Air Lines Chicago O&#8217;Hare is United&#8217;s largest hub in terms of departures, but they move more people through their hub at Houston Intercontinental In 1994, United&#8217;s pilots, machinists, bag handlers and non-contract employees acquired &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tvlon.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}