Word: 747s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than $5 milhon, that the deficit had been erased, that 616 Southern pilgrims were Paris bound, and that the time had come to "Laissez les bans temps rouler!" Harold Dejan's Olympia brass band, led by a prancer in a bowler and spats, bugled the revelers aboard two 747s and off they went, a "cou rouge" delegation if ever there was one, as one self-professed redneck exalted. They were indeed ready to let the good times roll...
...plans to serve 15 mainland cities as far east as New York City, where nonstop flights to Hawaii have mostly been unavailable. Still awaiting the resolution of questions about its financing and Civil Aeronautics Board certification, the new airline hopes to begin service on Feb. 15 with five leased 747s. After only two weeks of promotion, the airline claims it has already booked $12.8 million worth of tickets...
Boeing is also beginning to profit from the industry's twin problems of overcapacity in big airliners (as many as 100 747s, DC-10s and L-1011s are grounded because they cannot be filled), and the fare wars sparked by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. While the trunks have been slugging it out in expensive discounting duels for a shrinking number of passengers on such popular routes as New York-Los Angeles and Miami-Chicago, small regional airlines, known in the industry as "bumblebees," have been making fat profits serving medium-size cities abandoned by the major carriers...
...Wednesday the swarm of El Al workers at the airport had swelled to 1,000, most of whom brought along their wives and children. The families lay down on the runways in an effort to stop the flights of other airlines. When El Al pilots parked two Boeing 747s and one 707 on the main runway, the airport was forced to shut down for nearly 24 hours. Because there were women and children among the protesters, the government ordered the police to go easy. Only seven workers were arrested, but six demonstrators and eight policemen were injured in scuffles...
...response was to challenge the judgment of the Pentagon, with whom it had some $2.7 billion in contracts, ranging from the cruise missile to AWACS planes. After the Defense Department rejected the company's argument that it would be more efficient for the Air Force to buy remodeled 747s, troops of Boeing lobbyists marched on Capitol Hill armed with charts, glossy photos and lavish brochures. Meanwhile, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, Boeing's home state, strenuously campaigned for the company, asserting that the purchase of 747s "would assist the troubled airline industry...