Tom,
The was the famous Franz Josef Strauss, for whom the current Munich airport was named. He was once given a seat (and a captainβs hat with a Pan Am insignia) at the controls of the first A310-200 in a specially arranged flight from the former Munich-Riem airport to Berlin-Tegel. A single A310 was part of the FRA hourly schedule, and was swapped out TXL-DUS with a JFK-BRU-DUS flight Bob Distler From: Tom Windmuller via Mifnet <mifnet@lists.mifnet.com> Sent: Thursday, 21 August, 2025 07:55 To: mifnet@lists.mifnet.com Cc: Tom Windmuller <tom.windmul...@gmail.com> Subject: [Mifnet π° 73741] Re: Pan Am βGovernment helpβ is a useful metaphor for what was far more than cash. I was in a mtg in about 1986 where Josef Strauss, Minister-President (= Governor) of Bavaria (and then also Chairman of the Airbus board) proposed to the US Ambassador to West Germany that Airbus would stay out of the long haul market (not yet launched A-330/340) if Boeing would cede half of the narrow body market. You can imagine the response from WashDC, not to mention Seattle. tom w.
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