Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scheduled airline service between the U.S. and Britain came within a whisker of stopping last week. But the planes kept flying because U.S. and British negotiators came up with a new pact governing air traffic between their countries-at 5:10 a.m. Wednesday, London time, ten minutes after the Bermuda...
Beyond London. The British had been pressing for a year to overhaul the Bermuda Agreement. They felt that the three U.S. carriers covered by it-Pan American, TWA and National-were getting too much of the North Atlantic business. In 1976 U.S. carriers earned revenues of about $375 million on...
The U.S. won some other points. The British dropped their demand for a fixed fifty-fifty split of North Atlantic revenues. American negotiators also fended off British attempts to regulate passenger loads and flight frequencies by government decree; the U.S. agreed only to a "consultative" process if, say, the British...
Based on my experience as an American Airlines flight attendant for the past four years, I feel that I have been given and continue to be given excellent emergency training. Any time that I have "frantically" collected glasses before landing it has been because I had to argue with passengers...
A number of companies showed dramatic advances. B.F. Goodrich's earnings leaped 87%, largely because of strong tire sales. General Telephone & Electronics' net was up 53%, mainly because the rising value of the Canadian dollar made profits of its Canadian operation, when converted into U.S. dollars, take a...