United Airlines Had Men-Only Flights Until 1970. Here’s the Manly Services They Offered.

[SheilaT]

4. Yep. Real airline.

And by far the best of the Regionals, as the smaller airlines (which then included Piedmont, Lake Central, Allegheny, Bonanza, and a bunch of others) were known. Their president, Robert Peach, was a genuine visionary. He brought Mohawk into the jet age by being the first regional to purchase pure jets, the BAC 111, at a time when Boeing and Douglas sniffed their noses at the prospect of building jets for smaller airports and shorter routes.

I did find the Mad Men references to Mohawk to be somewhat amusing, as whatever executive they were in touch with was a fictional person. I suppose, even all these years later, they couldn't use real names, or only could if permission were obtained. I was very sorry that Mad Men didn't actually put a couple of their people on Mohawk flights to Utica, the company headquarters. It wouldn't have been all that hard to replicate the interior of the equipment flown then, probably the Convair 240 and the Martin 404. Or, they could even have shown Don Draper on one of the Gaslight flights. That would have been a hoot.