Braniff International Airways

Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965. Braniff's routes were primarily in the midwestern and southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America. In the late 1970s it expanded to Asia and Europe. The airline ceased air carrier operations in May 1982 because of high fuel prices, credit card interest rates and extreme competition from the large trunk carriers and the new airline startups created by the Airline Deregulation Act of December 1978. Two later airlines used the Braniff name: the Hyatt Hotels-backed Braniff, Inc in 1983–89, and Braniffs International Airlines, Inc. in 1991–92. In early 2022, the private Trust that originally owned Braniff’s intellectual property since 1983, reacquired these assets along with the original Braniff companies and corresponding assets. During 2017 and 2018, some of theOriginal Braniff. companies were reinstated for historical purposes and administration of Braniffs’ intellectual property assets including those of Mid-Continent Airlines, Pan American Grace. and Long and Harman Airlines.