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The Boeing 767 jumbo jet is fresh off the shop floor, a sleek $138 million model made to order for Continental Airlines. But its pilot on this test drive is a little rusty and nervously wipes a hand on his khakis as he glides in to land on runway 14L...
Bethune's day job gives him a far bumpier ride. The CEO of Houston-based Continental Airlines has piloted the nation's fifth largest passenger carrier through eight years of turbulent weather, bringing it back from the brink of a third bankruptcy in 1994. Nothing has been more challenging than...
Bethune delights in speaking his mind almost as much as he likes climbing into a cockpit. He says competitors trying to cut costs last September were "stupid" to take off magazines and meals in coach, a direct dig at Dallas-based American Airlines. He ridicules "an Atlanta-based carrier"--a...
Critics say the FAA is in danger of moving even more slowly than usual while the bureaucracy and stakeholders await a new leader. The airline industry is trying to hustle up its own candidates, but nobody yet seems willing to take the hefty pay cut for the privilege of being...
Waleed Joseph Iskandar, a business strategy consultant at the Monitor Group in Cambridge, died when American Airlines Flight 11 was crashed into the World Trade Center. He was 34.