A new route to the Far East extended Braniff Airlines’ previously established Los Angeles-Honolulu service to Guam and Hong Kong. 

Official cachets were not authorized for the new service, which utilized Boeing 747 equipment, but an official announcement was made in The Postal Bulletin.

This cover was carried on the July 3, 1979 inaugural Braniff Airlines flight from the Worldway Postal Center in Los Angeles, California to Hong Kong and is listed in The American Air Mail Catalogue as BN-F65x.

Braniff ceased air carrier operations in May 1982 because of high fuel prices, credit card interest rates and extreme competition from the large trunk carriers and the new airline startups created by the Airline Deregulation Act of December 1978.

Two later airlines used the Braniff name: the Hyatt Hotels-backed Braniff, Inc. in 1983–1989, and Braniff International Airlines, Inc. in 1991–1992.