Word: airwest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history by outfitting PSA stewardesses in tangerine-colored hot pants. When PSA balked at his plan to put out an in-flight magazine, he formed East/West Network, Inc. Butler gradually picked up other clients, and today the Los Angeles-based firm publishes magazines for PSA, Allegheny, Continental, Eastern, Hughes Airwest, Ozark, Pan Am, Southern, Texas International and United.* East/West figures that last year a total of 10 million passengers read the magazines each month. Combined revenues were $20 million, and profits were about $2 million...
Summa appears to be doing well in the absence of the boss. Traffic on Hughes Airwest's Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas route is up 11% from last year. Hughes engineers are building a prototype attack helicopter in competition with Bell for a $1 billion Pentagon contract. KLAS-TV in Las Vegas is bristling with $1 million in new equipment. In October, the new $4 million Hughes Aviation Terminal opened formally in Las Vegas. Among its features: banks of slot machines, a U.S. customs station, and a liquor store that sells Coors by the case...
...crowds. In Fort Wayne, Ind., he rushed past a cheering group of well-wishers. "We've been waiting 20 minutes in the freezing cold," complained one woman. Reagan pointed to his wristwatch to indicate he was running late?but he actually was on schedule. In his chartered yellow Hughes Airwest DC-9 (nicknamed the Big Banana), he rarely loosens his necktie or takes off his suit coat...
...Lummises and Gano have the power to vote Hughes' shares and thus keep the empire running. By maintaining a continuity of management in Summa, they will head off possible investigations by Nevada and federal regulatory agencies into the company's Nevada TV station and casinos and Hughes Airwest. Otherwise, the regulatory agencies may well have felt obliged to conduct immediate inquiries about the new chiefs...
...transportation group owns Hughes Helicopters Div., the big manufacturer of military choppers. It controls Hughes Airwest, the regional airline, through still another outfit, the Hughes Air Corp. The group runs Hughes Aviation Services Div., which services and repairs planes and provides terminal facilities for charter aircraft at Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport...