Business
March 13, 2024
The Short-Lived Dallas Carrier That American Airlines Drove Out of Business
The aviation battle underway at Love Field has echoes of the pivotal fight over the launch of Legend Airlines.
Aviation
The Stand Up Desk
January 27, 2023
An Author Believed Elon Musk Would Benefit Brownsville. Not Anymore.
National Book Award finalist Domingo Martinez was optimistic about Musk and SpaceX in 2016. Now, he says, “it feels like we sold our souls.”
Texas Icons
January 17, 2023
Southwest Used to Do Everything Right. What Happened?
Before its recent troubles, the industry giant seemed like the airline to beat.
Business
January 6, 2023
Southwest’s Christmas Mess Has Roots in Its Long Financial Success
The Dallas-based airline has always lagged behind in technology. Its leaders saw that as a feature, not a bug.
Business
June 13, 2022
Southwest Airlines Publishes Its Gospel of Herb
The Dallas carrier—whose success is often studied in business schools—offers up its own, self-promotional version of its management secrets.
Texas History
February 29, 2020
In Praise of Bessie Coleman, Trailblazing Black Texan Pilot
Coleman’s extraordinary life and career deserves to be celebrated in the canon of U.S. history.
Business
November 12, 2015
Great Planes
The real-life adventures of Leland Snow, the Thomas Edison of agricultural aviation.
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 2000
Airport 2000
These days, a plane trip can entail more time in the terminal than in the air. But why get stressed when you can have a massage, taste Texas wines, go for a jog, check your e-mail—even eat gumbo while watching (other people’s) planes take off? A survivor’s guide to DFW,
Business
August 1, 1990
Howdy, Comrades! Let’s Do a Deal
A Texas businessman launches his one-man invasion of post-Communist Romania.
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 1989
So You’re Stuck at the Airport
Your jet’s lagging. You’re sick of reading and people-watching. Cheer up: just a gate away might be great chili, a shopping mall, or even a place to pray.
Business
November 1, 1988
How Houston Beat the Bust: Branching Out
An entrepreneur captures customers in public rest rooms. A high-tech plant moves from oil to medicine. Space and biomedical manufacturing are finally off the drawing boards. And a former union boss becomes a bingo mogul.
Business
April 1, 1988
Wonder Plane
Up in the sky, it’s a plane, it’s a helicopter—no, it’s a tiltrotor, the Texas hybrid that will soon revolutionize air travel.
News & Politics
December 1, 1987
All Choked Up
A ground war at the Dallas–Fort Worth Airport is turning innocent passengers into anxious bystanders.
Business
March 1, 1987
Top Gun
Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo took an airline with no profits and limited prospects and built it into the country’s largest. How? By betting like the sky’s the limit.
News & Politics
July 1, 1981
Space Cadet
Astronauts used to be dashing pilots. Now they’re doctors, scientists, and . . . sanitary engineers.