Anyoen remember PeopleExpress Airlines?
 

My parents were cleaning out junk from their attic and came across my old PeopleExpress sweater from when I worked there in college (1986/87). Just wondering if any old employees hit this forum?

Anyone else remember the days of paying on the plane, $19 fares from NY to Boston, and zero in-flight amenities?

Lol, yes!
I remember taking small children to Florida with our little bags of lunch.
But it was affordable:)

Yes! I remember while I was in college flying home, my credit card was maxed out and the FAs just swiped the card as they walked down the aisle! Thank goodness they didn't call the cc's in back then.

Oh my! I remember driving to EWR to fly to ORF before they came to ALB too. Did those flights EVER leave on time? Dirty old terminal and freezing inside in the winter where I had to sleep overnight for a flight to ALB, as I'd missed the connector. But you couldn't beat the price!

On-board collection of fares was another thing very unique about them, as well as charging to CHECK your baggage. Today, I think an upstart airline would be more likely to charge for carry-on instead.

To this day I wonder if they ever considered charging for the toilet <g> !

Oh YES, People Depress Airlines. I used to take it all the time from EWR to Chicago and SFO.

One trip to SFO, we waited at the airport for 12 hours for the plane to be fixed, since they never cancelled flights, they just delayed them, so they wouldn't have to give any perks as per FAA regulations.

That SFO trip was awful coming back, as I think pilots were given more money for saving fuel, we flew right through a bad thunderstorm, the worst turbulence I have ever flown through. That was the last time I flew with them.

I flew People's Express several times in my college days. It's the only time I've ever had to board a plane from the tail and the only time I've ever seen people run and push to get seated in the plane.

Oh the memories this brings back! To think anyone wondered why they went out of business.

A group of friends thought about taking PeopleExpress to Florida for spring break. However, with the route of NC to Newark then to Florida, we figured we could drive there faster.

We never did make it to Florida. A couple of us went to Wrightsville (pre-I-40) for the day.

I got a $198 round-trip on People Express from Newark to Brussels back in the mid-'80s. What a deal! It was my first trip to Europe. Had to spend a couple of hours sitting on the phone trying to get through to People Express to make my reservation, but it was worth it.

I was working in North Carolina for a large computer company at the time, and the two women (New Yorkers) in the seats next to me actually were customers of the relatively unknown mainframe product I worked on. While talking to them, I found out that somebody I worked with had been the best man at a wedding where one of these two women was a bridesmaid. Small world!

Had a great time in Brussels, Amsterdam, Brugge, Paris, and the Jungfrau on that trip. Almost fell from the Eiffel Tower, too--but that's a story for some other time.

I'll always remember People Express with great fondness for getting me to Europe for the first time.

Of course - I recall getting the pizza in nyc, the flight, Europe in the a.m. - my first intro to Newark, and not my last. We used People over and over to Europe, at least five times, and the fares were amazing. And then it ended. What an airline while it lasted.

Don,
I want to hear how you almost fell off the Eiffel Tower!

My one memory of People Express is a memory of a flight that never took off, from New York (Newark I guess)to Boston.

Who remembers this -- did the old Ny-Boston shuttles let you pay on the plane or did you have to stand in line?
I remember running through LaGuardia and jumping onto planes as if they were buses, but don't remember how I paid.

This was when it was $15 each way (& $5000/year was a very good salary).

Even farther back - anyone remember Allegheny (Agony) Airlines?

What about Braniff?

Don, I did $99 each way from San Francisco to Brussels in early December of, I believe, 1984. They were inaugurating flights between those two cities. I spent all of Thanksgiving Day redialing trying to get reservations-- had to book out and back separately. Flight was on a 747 with 500+ passengers. Even the flight attendants were wide-eyed with fear because it didn't seem as if we were going to lift off the runway at SFO.

You mean Allegheny, the precursor to US Air (US Scare)? My dad flew them when I was a kid, but I never got a chance. My first flight was when I was 13, on Eastern Airlines. Now THERE'S a defunct airline for ya!!

I flew NYC(or was it Newark?) to Fort Lauderdale on People in the early '80s. I loved it. Cheap, brought a good lunch with me, and my plane was clean and comfortable. Beat a lot of the higher priced flights I have taken since. ( My sister had a friend who worked for People . She was a flight attendant).

When my husband and I lived in Boston, we flew down to NYC for the day just to go Christmas shopping. I believe it was either $19 or $29 roundtrip. What fun!

Anyone remember Piedmont or Republic?

... and Metro International - with only two planes, 747s, leased. NYC to Israel via Brussels and Rome.

RT $199 - which allowed us many trips Friday night to Tuesday night. An absolute hoot.

Into Brussels by 5:30 a.m., get the bags, the car and start driving. Lunch, then finally Paris and the ring road and traffic jams at 4 p.m Saturday. How did we live!!!?

Tuesday, Paris to Brussels 5 a.m. to 10 a.m., fly out at 11 a.m., into JFK by 3:30 p.m., and back on the road again. Jeeez, how did we ever do it!!!

We must have thought that $199 was a god send - we sacrified our bodies and minds. What fun. Talk about smiles!!!