AUSTIN, Texas — Parked next to each other with nowhere to go, a colorful assortment of jetliners were scattered around the boarding gates outside a DFW Airport terminal.
It was May 1982, and Braniff International Airways, at one time one of the most successful carriers in the business, went out of business virtually overnight.
Braniff was based in Dallas-Fort Worth, with destinations that included regular flights in and out of Austin’s Mueller Airport…