JOHN MORGAN
Reservations

Anyway, to answer your question,  we opened STLRR in April 68 and later relocated it to our first Kansas City location as 
KCKRR in the spring of 1973. We out grew this location and moved to a larger facility a couple miles
away in July of 1979. We remained there until the fall of 1984.
John Morgan
(5/21/99)

Jake, we opened STLRR in April of 1968. In those days you’ll recall the old CAB authorized routes and after a long process 
awarded the winning airline the right to fly the route. There was a Hawaii and S. Pacific route case. In the initial finding 
Fl was granted non-stop DEN-STL and DEN-MKC, continuing MKC-STL. Braniff got the bulk of the routes to Hawaii and beyond. 
BN had anticipated the route and had built a new reservations office in downtown STL. The rumor at that time was President 
Johnson had influenced the findings, directing them to BN, a Texas based airline, his home state. As normal there was a 
waiting period before the route authority became finial. The rumor said someone in the LBJ administration had miscounted the 
business days his administration had remaining and the finial authority couldn’t be issued until 1 day after he left office. 
On the first day of Nixon’s administration the finial authority was held for farther review. After some time AA got the bulk 
of the routes and BN no longer had need for the STL center. We bought every thing, desks, chairs, etc. We operated there 
until the spring of 1973 when we moved to a suburban Kansas City location and became KCKRR. We left about 20 employees in 
STL who couldn’t move. We out grew the first KCKRR facility in 1979 and moved to another location a mile away. We were there 
until the famous 84-10 that closed the Eastern part of the system. As we closed we left about 30 employees there, with the 
rest moving to DENRR and SLCRR. 

There was other reservations centers in the early years, FTWRR that became DALRR and was later merged into STLRR. There was 
a PHXRR that was merged into DEN after DENRR moved from old hanger 5 to the much larger new hanger operation about 1970.
John Morgan
(5/22/99) 
 

I retired a few years ago. After 28 years with FL I departed Aug 1, 1985.
From there I did a startup Airline in PHX, StatesWest, worked for E. Paul Jones. There were several ex-FL people involved 
with it. From there to TranStar in Houston until they closed,  then Best Western Hotels for a few years. 
John Morgan
(5/23/99)