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Despite the precautions, none of the experts were worried about the overall reliability of the 747, which some pilots affectionately call "Fat Albert" because of its bulging profile. Many consider it one of the safest airliners ever built. It is also the largest, with a wingspan of 196 ft. and...
DIED. J. (for John) Willard Marriott, 84, chairman of the Marriott Corp., who parlayed a nine-stool Washington root-beer stand started in 1927 into a $4 billion worldwide lodging and food empire that includes 142 hotels, 1,500 restaurants and flight kitchens serving more than 150 airlines; in Wolfeboro...
This year's drop in oil prices produced a new cast of Wall Street winners and losers. It was a boon to the airlines, which got a break in their fuel bills. Shares of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, have gone up 12.5%, to 49 1/2. At the same...
COVER: Airlines say "Happy New Year" with a rousing round of price rollbacks 40 Air travel used to be an expensive way to go, but a new fleet of cut-rate carriers, led by People Express, is now offering low fares from coast to coast and on hundreds of routes...
Air travel, once an expensive way to go, is now discounted almost as fiercely as videocassette recorders and used cars. A new fleet of cut-rate carriers, launched over the past seven years by a wave of airline deregulation, has entered the big time by offering startlingly cheap fares from...