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Posting here because we have so many highly knowledgeable and experienced people here but I bet this stumps everyone.
I am trying to find out how/when United Airlines prepared passenger manifests in 1954, specifically for a flight from Honolulu to San Francisco. Hawaii was not a state then so such a flight may have been treated like an international flight. (I know from experience last summer that flights to Guam are still handled similarly to international flights with passport control both directions.)
I'm asking this because I have been doing some family history research and found a manifest from 1954 with ancestors names on it but they are scratched out. Notably all the other passengers have their citizenship noted in handwriting next to their names.
It's also interesting to me that all United flights to Honolulu at that time were first class. There were only 22 passengers on the plane. My guess is that the tickets would have been at least the modern equivalent of $10000-$20000 per ticket! And this was a poor family of 4. So I am trying to figure out what motivated this extremely expensive trip and why/when they apparently canceled. I would expect the manifest was prepared not long (maybe less than a week) before the flight, maybe the same day, so understanding when/why they may have canceled.
Anyway, I'm pretty doubtful that anyone here is old enough to have worked in the airline industry back then but any thoughts would be appreciated! I'm 59 and remember flying in the early 70s including check-in procedures and stuff from my perspective so maybe someone here in their 70s will at least remember flying in the early 50s and be able to comment on how things seemed to work.
I am trying to find out how/when United Airlines prepared passenger manifests in 1954, specifically for a flight from Honolulu to San Francisco. Hawaii was not a state then so such a flight may have been treated like an international flight. (I know from experience last summer that flights to Guam are still handled similarly to international flights with passport control both directions.)
I'm asking this because I have been doing some family history research and found a manifest from 1954 with ancestors names on it but they are scratched out. Notably all the other passengers have their citizenship noted in handwriting next to their names.
It's also interesting to me that all United flights to Honolulu at that time were first class. There were only 22 passengers on the plane. My guess is that the tickets would have been at least the modern equivalent of $10000-$20000 per ticket! And this was a poor family of 4. So I am trying to figure out what motivated this extremely expensive trip and why/when they apparently canceled. I would expect the manifest was prepared not long (maybe less than a week) before the flight, maybe the same day, so understanding when/why they may have canceled.
Anyway, I'm pretty doubtful that anyone here is old enough to have worked in the airline industry back then but any thoughts would be appreciated! I'm 59 and remember flying in the early 70s including check-in procedures and stuff from my perspective so maybe someone here in their 70s will at least remember flying in the early 50s and be able to comment on how things seemed to work.
