Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The pro-business attitude has delighted the leadership. Harrington once suggested scrapping all environmental laws to stimulate industry and McGee is friendly to business enterprises, particularly the airlines. Although they admit the state needs to improve its business climate, Frank and other liberals have been further annoyed by what they...
But Borman's hard-driving approach eventually made him a vice president, then president and finally chairman. Now he is addressing himself to the great fear among industry analysts that U.S. airlines will not have enough money to replace their planes as existing fleets age. Borman has an idea...
"Do airlines think flying is only for the rich?" complains the hearty beef-and-bitter type in the ads for Laker Airways. "I've got to give you a better deal."
The dealer is Freddie Laker, 54, a British aviation maverick who has become the self-proclaimed St. George of cheap transatlantic air travel. His $70 million fleet of ten planes-including three 345-passenger McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jumbo trijets-is painted in the red, white and black colors of...
Over the past five years, much of Laker's energy has been spent fighting red tape entangling his Skytrain project. He has already spent $1.5 million in legal fees and has triumphed in no fewer than eight official hearings on both sides of the Atlantic. Skytrain, however, is still...