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...wars. He bought brand new Airbus A320s to give customers confidence; he equipped them with satellite TVs and gave you enough seat room so that you could open a newspaper without slapping the passenger next to you. He ran the company out of New York's under-utilized JFK airport as opposed to the tumultuous LaGuardia. He clarified pricing so that you needed a computer only to book a flight and not figure out the rules. He treated his employees like he actually cared about them, so they are not the quietly seething, underpaid survivors serving at the majors...
...raised, were exported out of the U.S. between 2002 and 2005, according to a study by the World Chelonian Trust. The turtle traders have not focused on harvesting in Africa or Latin America, largely because transportation logistics and costs are not competitive there, van Dijk says. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is a major regional shipping point for turtles collected in the wild and harvested on turtle farms in Oklahoma and Louisiana. The turtles are packed in containers and shipped by air to Asia. Customs officials at both ends monitor the shipments, but accurate numbers and reliable records of which species...
...last year steered Delta past a hostile $9.8 billion takeover bid by U.S. Airways Group. A Delta director since 1987, Grinstein introduced more narrow-bodied aircraft for the airline's short-haul markets, doubled its international business to 36% of revenue and strengthened New York's John F. Kennedy Airport as a hub for Delta's business travelers...
Hershman, the ethics cop whom Kleinfeld hired, has been holding compliance training sessions with hundreds of executives. The week before Easter, he met the chief financial officers of divisions in a conference room at the busy Munich airport. Most of their questions were technical in nature, but some revealed how raw emotions are at the company. "How long will it take before everything is known?" asked one. "How long will it take before Siemens' reputation is restored?" asked another. During his wanderings, Hershman has been learning a lot about what went wrong at Siemens. The Munich meeting, for example...
...TRANSPORTATION Repairs are complete at 92 of 98 rail stations. But nationwide an average of only 32 trains a week ran because of security concerns. Baghdad International Airport averaged 403 flights (military and civilian) a week, down from last quarter...