An Airline Agent at the SFO Airport — from Props to Jets

by on 2011/11/25

An Airline Agent at the SFO Airport -- from Props to Jets

Description: The late 1950s and early ‘60s saw the transition in the airline industry from propeller-driven piston-engine planes to jet-turbines; from the predominance of the business traveler to today’ s masses of pleasure travelers; from small twin-engined passenger planes to today’s 400-plus passengers jumbo jets; from relatively quiet and uncrowded, not really large terminals to the frantic sounds and activities of our current mammoth facilities, with automation nearly everywhere: at t