Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First the airlines use all kinds of cut-rate fares [Oct. 16] to encourage us to travel with them. Then they turn around and tell us that we are third-class travelers and don't deserve all the good treatment we have been getting. The source of the complaints...
Airline Deregulation. The Civil Aeronautics Board was deprived of its power to control airline fares and routes. The airlines will be able to cut fares by 50% and initiate service to additional cities-but no more than one new route each year -without asking the CAB for approval.
To head the Stage 2 program, Carter would like to name Alfred Kahn, a somewhat ironic choice. As chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, Kahn became famous for freeing airlines from burdensome federal regulation. As overseer of the guidelines, he would be in charge of much greater Government intervention in...
Meyer added, though, that it would be unfair to attribute to the professor the biases of the corporation he works for. And later he said he had done "a little" consulting for Pan American Airlines, and that for years he visited General Motors annually to give a talk about the...
John N. Sullivan, the federal railroad administrator, warned last week that unless the railroads are allowed to become more competitive, in the next ten years they will face a shortage of $13 billion to $16 billion in capital required to keep roadbeds and equipment in shape. The best action that...