Talk:Braniff International Airways

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[edit] Possible Misinformation

In the other facts section, someone mentions that in 2001, Southpark Studios were told not to use Braniff in any other format, and then says this is why it was not included in the South Park movie. All I have to say is that the South Park movie came out in 1999. --Reepnorp 01:39, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] English in the Braniff article

Observe how this reads: "These debts combined with Braniff's sub-par load factors—which were especially intolerable on the expensive-to-run 747s—to produce massive financial shortfalls."

Take out the phrase enclosed in hyphens, which you should be able to do in any sentence written in English, and this reads: "These debts combined with Braniff's sub-par load factors to produce massive financial shortfalls." This is proper English; to be specific, it's a full infinitive.

With your revision, this would read: "These debts combined with Braniff's sub-par load factors produced massive financial shortfalls." This is not proper English, unless the phrase "with Braniff's sub-par load factors" is enclosed with commas; however, if this is done, the punctuation becomes too busy.

It's perhaps a little fancy, but I like how it reads. DiogenesNY 03:51, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Are you reading what you're writing? s/b "...debts (noun) and the "load factors" (noun) produced (verb) shortfalls (direct object); -OR- your original was okay before as "...debts and 'load factors' led to shortfalls". As you said, removing the inserted text between the em dashes makes it easier to construct (and copy edit) Clipper471 04:07, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
As I noted, you're adding an "and" to the sentence that's not in the sentence as written. "To produce" is being used as a full infinitive following the verb "combined". Your revision makes sense if I had used "and", but I didn't. My sentence effectively reads "These debts combined to produce"; your sentence effectively reads, "These debts combined produced". Look again, Mr. Copy Editor. DiogenesNY 04:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Ahhh! I was reading it as "the debts /combined with the sub-par load factors/ to produce...", not that the debts actually combined. Perhaps commas would be a good idea. But how do debts "combine"? Clipper471 04:25, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
The debts are Factor 1, the sub-par load factors are Factor 2; combined, they lead to the result. As in, "The sunny day combined with the warm temperatures to produce ideal weather for golf." DiogenesNY 04:30, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Your original "these debts combined /with the sub-par load factors/ led to ... shortfalls" is better. Clipper471 04:33, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay as is. Seeing it more clearly now. The text that's set off seems to break the flow more than I'm comfortable with since it's so long. Clipper471 04:37, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Oh well...I suppose I'll never win the Pulitzer Prize. 8) DiogenesNY 05:21, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Splits

these are different legal companies -- related, and should have their own articles —Cliffb 05:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] South Park

Why does South Park show a Braniff logo after the end credits? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.6.66.193 (talk) 06:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC).

Yes good question, I was wondering as well... does anyone know? Gryffindor 12:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

If the two of you would care to READ the article to which you have attached your discussion questions, then you would know. 75.75.91.240 23:53, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Braniff Logo.JPG

Image:Braniff Logo.JPG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:59, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] end of operation

If i recall correctly, the termination of operations in 1982 was extremely abrupt to the clientèle, leaving travelers stranded at airports with their connecting flights cancelled, "out of the blue". Very unelegant. So if this is of possible interest, one would have to conduct some research to find some reliable sources to quote here.
--Jerome Potts (talk) 08:11, 6 March 2008 (UTC)