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...surprising move after 9/11 to shut down MetroJet, its low-cost subsidiary based at Baltimore/Washington 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...
...alliance?or send the wrong signal to Pyongyang. Says Lieut. Colonel Steven Boylan, a spokesman for U.S. forces in South Korea: "Everything we are doing is to enhance the alliance, not diminish it." With anti-American sentiment still strong in South Korea, the U.S. decision might seem like a boon to President Roh Moo Hyun; in his younger days, he supported the withdrawal of American troops. No danger of that here: the move comes with a $11 billion investment to bolster U.S. defenses on the peninsula...
They're still around, but one of their traditional jobs is disappearing. The advent of bags with wheels may have been a boon for the luggage industry (and sore shoulders), but how many people still need an airport porter to carry their bags...
...bring his love of bicycles to Harvard in a new and exciting way. His plan to open a new bike shop, “Quad Bikes,” in the basement of Cabot House will no doubt be greatly successful. Such innovative business on campus is a great boon, and Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 deserves a sincere thanks for making Quad Bikes possible with his consultation and advice...
Kelly’s childhood home was two blocks away, and he says he believes the CGIS project will improve the area’s feel. As a boon to the neighborhood where it will construct CGIS’s two large academic buildings, the University plans to restore several wood-frame houses along Sumner Road that have fallen into disrepair...