Word: 737s
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With only a pair of brand-new Boeing 737s sporting brightly colored orange-and-green tail fins, Pro Air Inc. is America's newest passenger airline. Launched in Detroit's City Airport last July by former Boeing lawyer Kevin Stamper, Pro Air offers fares as much as 85% less than giant Northwest Airlines' on comparable routes. Passengers flocked to Pro Air, but Northwest, which dominates traffic in Detroit, was not about to let Pro Air grab share. Northwest quickly cut prices and added seats to Pro Air destinations, including Baltimore, Md.; Newark, N.J.; and Indianapolis, Ind. Under this assault...
...that was out of range of the turboprops. Delta, the nation's third largest carrier, is using Comair's smaller jets in at least two dozen cities--among them Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City and Philadelphia--to adjust capacity when demand is too low for bigger jets. Delta has pulled 737s or MD-80s out of such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from St. Louis to Cincinnati is Comair service," says David Anderson, a Delta executive in Cincinnati. There are even some advantages to the smaller jets. Says...
...Tanners were beneficiaries of a feeding frenzy at Boeing that has hardly abated since orders for models from 737s to 777s took off last year. The world's No. 1 builder of jetliners, which agreed in December to acquire McDonnell Douglas for $13 billion, added skilled workers last year at a rate that peaked at 500 a week (average salary for engineers: $53,900 a year). So hungry is Boeing for workers that it solicits resumes in cyberspace (address: www.boeing.com and has lured 19,000 prospects that...
...BOEING'S 737S TO GET THE ONCE-OVER...
...ordered emergency inspections of Boeing's venerable 737 jets. Reason: tests detected that rudder power control units (PCUS) might jam when extremely hot hydraulic fluid reaches a very cold "slide" (it's like a valve), although such a jam has never been reported in some 69 million flights of 737s worldwide. The rudder affects a jet's orientation. Each of the 2,700 737s in service were to be checked within 10 days. No travel delays are expected...