1936 - The Greatest Year yet...

Jack Frye announces TWA's statistics for business year, 1936 with great anticipation of the future. Always pushing, always perseiving the future how he is to lead and direct the affairs of his young company into the global giant TWA will become.

 

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TWA Skyliner Comforts

Here is a glimpse into a Skyliner cabin in which Jack Frye and company spearheaded for the benifit of in-flight passenger comforts. A pioneering concept made into reality thanks again to Mr. Frye's vision and desire to make air travel as comfortable and safe as possible. The one characteristice of the flight crew I see here is - Service. A similar purpose that was and is exhibited in hotel management taken to the skies.

TWA president Jack Frye with Miss Lilly Pons, noted operatic and radio star, and Miss Pons fiance, Andre Kostelonetz, composer and conductor. The three were photographed before one of the company's displays at the 1937 Kansas City motor show.

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Frye wishes employees a Very Merry

Here we have Jack Frye in his second year as TWA President wishing TWA employees a very Merry Christmas in 1936, as well as admonishing them for a job well done. By his words one can easily tell Mr. Frye loved his employees and realized they're huge contribution to the company's success. This attitude and persona of Mr. Frye continued throughout his 13 year tenure as TWA's president.

 

Jack Frye was and still is a very well respected President and businessman industry wide. It is true that even today, retired TWA employees speak very well of Jack Frye's positive influence and guidence of TWA during its infancy, through to its worldwide success as an airline leader. This especially makes this writer proud knowing uncle Jack always put others first to the point he would not succumb to the negative trappings one could easily weild with the power and influence he possessed.

 

 

 

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Hostess & Pilot Twins

 

On the 25th anniversary of the very first air-mail flight in the US, the National Postmasters Convention in 1936 was held in Cleveland Ohio in which the Steuken twins, Margaret & Marjorie stole the show. Here they are shown at the TWA booth displaying the air mail service provided by the company. Can you imagin a $0.03 postage on a air mail envelope! Secondly, TWA's 'twin pilots', L.H. & M.C. Williams are posing with the Steuken twins and Mr. Alexander Graham, the Kansas City postmaster showing off TWA's $1.98 fare for a giant air-mail letter.

 

A great shot of a DC-2 Skyliner cruising past the Kansas City headquarters plant.

 

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Frye Announces Reduced Airfare Rates

An historic announcement by Jack Frye to the airline industry - 'drastically reduced airfares'! At this point in 1936, Transcontinental & Western Air had a fleet of 21 airliners that would be serving coast-to-coast, 24 hours a day. Frye openly and positively stated that as a result of these reduced fares and increased passenger travel now being less than extra-fare rail travel, revenues would increase.

This is another groundbreaking milestone in airline history in whick Jack Frye and TWA lead the way. Another vision Mr. Frye and company enjoyed for the benifit of the passenger travel industry, and the company's future.

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The Skyliner 1936

This is the cover of Vol.1, issue 2 of The Skyliner magazine. It now dawns a great artist rendition of the DC-2. If you look at the mid righthand side of the artwork, you will see Jack Frye speaking with a pair of coworkers with what appears as operations conversation. A close up of this depiction of Mr. Frye can be more easily recognized below. I have typed his name in red.

Feel free to print and display these images. They make for great conversation showing vintage TWA history.