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...thank Southwest Airlines for the changes--or curse it, if you are a competitor. Southwest, based in Dallas, created the basic-fare, point-to-point model the new discount carriers are adapting and profiting from. Five airlines today--AirTran, ATA, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines--aspire to be the next Southwest, and at least two major carriers, Delta Air Lines and United, have launched or announced plans for low-fare, me-too subsidiaries (a second try for both...
...International Airport, AirTran, with headquarters in Orlando, Fla., moved into that airport within weeks. It has now built a successful mini-hub there, with 22 flights a day. The low fares have been a boon to these once obscure airports: Midway Airport in Chicago--which is served by AirTran, ATA, Frontier and Southwest--now offers 22% of all U.S. flights from Chicago, up from 14% in 1997. And while many major carriers have cut flights, departures from Midway have grown 16% since...
Another participant from the greater Boston community was La Piñata, a children’s dance group which performed merengue, samba and maculele. Spectators on Friday night rewarded the group with a standing ovation...
...fedayeen forces or other bad guys, and that Special Forces troops are conducting raids. He declined to say if those raids are bearing fruit. In the meantime, the Americans are trying to woo local leaders into working with them to form a provisional authority. One is Sheik Ibrahim Ata Allah al-Juburi, chief of the Juburi tribe which claims 10 million Iraqis "from Zakho to Basra," al-Jubiri said. He receives visitors in a tent erected in front of his house; the tent has ceiling fans, a telephone, a television with satellite receiver and a rectangular sectional couch measuring...
...Jazeera carried video from a Baghdad market hit by missiles. As Iraqis pulled the mutilated dead from the rubble and the camera lingered on a boy with blood streaming from his head, waiters paused, holding their steaming plates of lamb stew. "This blood must be avenged," taxi driver Ata Ali said angrily. "We will see pictures of American children bleeding like that, God willing...