Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Twentieth century travelers have been struck by a number of things: oncoming cars, other airplanes, mountainsides -and sometimes the vaguely subversive thought that they are scarcely safer now than were 19th century men who took their chances in wagons across Indian country. There might be some intimation of progress in...
On a smaller scale, air travelers have had their "right to know" needlessly impaired by a relatively unnoticed act of Congress. It recently voted an increase in the tax on airline tickets to help finance the campaign against aerial hijacking, but in so doing also prohibited disclosure of the amount...
Most airlines have been badly buffeted by slumping traffic and rising costs, but United's performance has been particularly weak. Losses for 1970 are estimated to be $40 million on revenues of $1.5 billion. Keck recently said, "It has been like an accountant's bad dream."
Since Nov. 12, ALPA has been on strike against Mohawk Airlines of Utica, N.Y., grounding the line's short-haul flights to 38 mainly Northern and Eastern airports. Money is only one of the issues. Mohawk has offered to pay its captains-who now average $2,625 per month...
Mohawk has sought to cope by trimming its schedules and turning over lightly traveled routes to the largely nonunionized air taxi lines, the so-called "third-level carriers." The union is worried about the trend, and estimates, perhaps with some exaggeration, that 1,000 ALPA jobs have been lost through...