Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hogs for Stud. Businessmen have coped as best they could, often by paying premium rates for shipping their orders by air. Air cargo companies, which had suffered from the overall airlines malaise (see story, page 80), were doing record business, transporting loads that included heavy machinery, transistor radios, beer, and...
U.S. airlines have been reeling from a combination punch: their costly, shiny new jumbo jets arrived just as a recession cut back the predicted increase in air travel. Last year the U.S. trunk carriers ran up a total loss of $179 million; TWA alone went some $60 million into the...
Faraway Places. Despite their dis agreements over what rate structure to adopt, IATA members are generally reluctant to start a price war. "Most trans atlantic airlines are hard put to make ends meet these days," explains Luft hansa Spokesman Claus Dehio, "so fares will have to be kept to a...
In other businesses, there will be severe shock waves. Several members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) threatened to raise the price of oil by the amount of the eventual dollar devaluation, which could result in much higher tags on gasoline and fuel oil. The airlines, international hotel...
Interflug's low fares also pose a problem. After studying the possibility of using Schönefeld, Swissair concluded that it could not compete there profitably. For the same reason, Austrian Airlines, which has a mutual landing agreement that permits it to operate out of Schönefeld, does...