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...hardest decisions that Halaby faces involve cutting Pan Am's elephantine overhead costs. The line is paying interest rates as high as 11¼% to finance its 747s. Pan Am has a poor 54% passenger break-even load factor v. 48% for TWA. Salvation through the merger route is improbable, as Halaby now concedes. What healthy domestic line would want to team up with a troubled giant? The chance of Government help is also a long shot, mostly because of congressional opposition. The CAB could award Pan Am some domestic feeder routes, but most domestic runs are already overcrowded...
...himself during landing procedures by referring to a Honeywell computer on board that shows exactly what the aircraft will do next. Superjet engines, while three times more powerful than those of standard jets, are quieter, more pollution-free and more efficient. Meals served aboard the DC-10, some 747s and Lockheed's forthcoming L-1011 are stored and warmed in a galley located below the passenger level, in the plane's cargo hold. When the food is ready for serving, a stewardess will put it on electric elevators connecting the two levels. Among the most important new superjets...
...incitement to youthful wanderlust this year is the greatest price-cutting war in airline history. It has created youth fares so enticing that the youngsters can hardly afford to stay home. Ever since Belgium's Sabena, whose transatlantic 747s had been running only 11% full, offered a $220 round trip to Belgium for almost anyone under 30, other lines have rushed to meet or beat that bargain. A youth-fare passenger on Sabena can fly only to and from Brussels, but on some other lines he can now mix and match. Pan Am. for example, allows a person...
...plane, the chiefs of some leading airlines figure that they must have it, and then all other lines feel obliged to follow. The debut last year of the 356-passenger 747 jumbo jet left the lines with many more seats than they could fill. The lines added so many 747s in the last year that the number of seats on North Atlantic flights soared by 18%, to as many as 56,000 each way during peak summer days...
...failure of the 747s...