The L-1011 had different yokes
Not my photo
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A cool aircraft, but one of the biggest factors that sank the company. Operating widebodies in such a tightly-contested market (Japan mostly works becaust of the de facto duopoly between All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines) by a relatively small airline isn’t a recipe for success.
Why does United fly their 777s to Cancun then?
Anyone know which airlines opted for the low-profile yoke and how many had the standard one?
Somehow, I think leisure traffic to a major vacation destination by an established trunk carrier is different than an airline that was largely confined to 2 or 3 states attempting to operate widebodies on a route that everyone was trying to get into after 1978. Also, I didn’t say that buying the TriStar was the thing that brought down PSA, I was saying operating the type proved to be a massive airplane-shaped hole for them to dump money into, money they could ill-afford to spend for the return on investment they were getting from the jets.
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@Poxy I don’t know if you remember this airline. But when I was a kid living in San Diego I use to get this plane confused with PSA… can you see why lol. I miss it. I miss the good old days of so many wonderful airlines
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So many different airlines, so many varieties of aircraft. Variety is almost non existent today
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I actually didn’t know that airline existed—I though you were talking about AirCal at first lol
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I can’t wait to fly this from Vancouver to Toronto!
Credit: File:Air Canada Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Marmet.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
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Also just 1 more vote and we are at 100!
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I gave the 99th vote but a stall ain’t 1, rotate! 
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Il be the 100th Voter.
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100 votes! Thank you everyone! Now off to 250
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I hope that one day we do get the L-1011. 
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Hell yeah!
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Nick Hoffmann: Gulf Air
Lockheed L1011-200 A4O-TY
LHR/EGLL London Heathrow Airport
Date: 1985
Photo credit T. Jerkson.
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Nick Hoffmann: Rich International Airways
Lockheed L1011-1 N300AW
MAN/EGCC Manchester Airport
Date: 1990s
Photo credit Stuart Prince.
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Departed Wings: Seeking scheduled passenger services from Hawaii to the U.S. Mainland, Hawaiian Airlines taking advantage of the post deregulation era and success with its charter operations started non-stop Honolulu-Los Angeles flights on June 12, 1985. The airline would initially acquire five Lockheed L-1011 aircraft from Boeing (as part of a deal with Japanese airline ANA) during 1985, allowing it to increase flights to Los Angeles as well as add service to San Francisco and Seattle in January 1986. Hawaiian’s Lockheed L-1011s had a capacity of 256-passnegers and advertised “Premier Pacific” service on West Coast routes. The airline would eventually operate eight of the Lockheed L-1011 Tristars until they were replaced with ex-American Airlines Douglas DC-10s with the last one being retired in September 1994.
Seen queued in line for a morning departure from Runway 24 Left and wearing the “Pualani” colors at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in March 1986, is N765BE “Kauai,” a Lockheed L-1011-50 Tristar.
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