Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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"El Al has the Jews. We have the Moslems. Now we're going to fight El Al for the Christian trade." So says Aly Ghandour, managing director of the five-plane Royal Jordanian Airlines. With a new twist on an ancient feud, the Amman-based, government-owned line is...
Since 1971, Israeli border officials have allowed foreign tour groups from Amman to cross the Jordan River to the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which contains most of the sites mentioned in the Bible. Many of the tourists are destined for Jerusalem. "We consider Amman the proper gateway to Jerusalem," says...
Alia is ten years old and on the verge of showing a profit for the first time; it survived its first decade on government subsidy. Cabin service is up to the standards of Western airlines. Pilots and their crews, once mostly foreigners, are now 80% Jordanian. They fly one 707...
($100,000), Ashland Oil, Inc. ($100,-000), American Airlines ($55,000), Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ($40,000).
censure, although this one combined high comedy with tragic potential. A modified 707 belonging to Lebanon's Middle East Airlines was 87 minutes out of Benghazi on its way to Beirut when a thin, popeyed, bushy-haired man in a green striped suit whipped a brace of pistols out...