Word: 727s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours if they were not restricted by noise complaints from residential neighbors. Washington's National Airport, which is booked solid during the day, allows only 13 flights between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Late-model jets like the Boeing 757 and 767 are half as noisy as the early 727s, but hundreds of the older planes are still rattling suburban windows...
...diplomats negotiate, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas executives are peddling their planes more aggressively than in the past. Says Dean Thornton, president of Boeing's commercial-plane division: "We used to sell 727s like you sell Mercedes. This one's nice and there's the price on the window, take it or leave it. But times have changed." Now both American aircraftmakers offer better service, supply spare parts in advance and guarantee maintenance costs...
...making fat profits serving medium-size cities abandoned by the major carriers. Now the trunks want some of that business back, and to get it they need smaller planes. The most popular: Boeing's new twin-engine 110-passenger 737-200, a fuel-efficient improvement over the older 727s that it usually replaces...
...have to operate at reduced schedules for perhaps a full year, while the Federal Aviation Administration trains new air-traffic controllers to replace those fired by the President last week. This would force the companies to curtail flights of their less efficient planes, including DC-9s and Boeing 727s, and ultimately to accelerate the selling off of the aging planes, which has actually already been under way for months. With fewer planes in the air, more seats would be filled, and discount fares would diminish. Overall industry profits would wind up climbing rather than falling...
Exhausted but triumphant, the three men were the first to deplane from one of the Air Algerie Boeing 727s that bore the hostages from Tehran to Algiers. There they were greeted with grateful bear hugs by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria Ulric Haynes Jr., the Americans with whom they had worked so closely in the frantic last days of bargaining...