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...been particularly vexing, again because of overcomputerization. Passengers have complained that the system chews up their bags as voraciously as if they were hamburgers, though the operation has been improved. As a result of the snafus at Dallas-Fort Worth, the distance from downtown, and the exorbitant runway fees, Braniff and Texas International have moved part of their operations back to the old Love Field, only five miles from Dallas. Delta also is considering pulling some of its flights out of the giant airport. Southwest Airlines, which never moved from Love (despite lawsuits filed by the city of Dallas...
...fare overhaul ordered by the CAB should raise industry revenues a bit more than 1% above last year's levels. Reason: most coach passengers take the short-haul trips that will become more expensive. Braniff International appears to be the biggest winner; its web of short routes across the Southwest will bring in a projected 3½% more revenue. National and TWA, both mostly long-haul carriers, will each lose about ½ of 1% in revenues. The nation's seven other domestic trunk lines will fall somewhere in between...
...Ashland Oil Inc. ($100,000); Gulf Oil Corp ($100,000); Braniff Airways Inc. ($40,000); American Airlines ($55,000); Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. ($40,000); 3M Co. ($30,000); Phillips Petroleum Co. ($100,000). Employees of an eighth, the American Ship Building Co., testified that they cooperated in donating $26,200 in corporate funds to Nixon's campaign, but the company itself has admitted no wrongdoing...
Calder had been asked to use the DC-8 as a canvas by Braniff Chairman Harding L. Lawrence, who broke commercial flying tradition by ordering up his jets in brilliant colors. Calder, who invented both the stabile and the mobile, starts painting an actual plane this fall in Dallas-with his signature eight feet high on the nose. It's a bird, it's a plane-it's a Calder...
Barnes first suggested the get-together last year, but Pan Am Chairman William Seawell may benefit most from the symbiosis. Pan Am, which has no significant intra-U.S. routes, has been in the market for a domestic partner for years, but merger talks with Eastern, United, TWA and Braniff have all fallen through. Now that Seawell's economies have begun to push Pan Am toward profitability, Allegheny's Barnes sees the two lines as made for each other. They stand to capture as much as $500 million a year in additional revenue by offering single-ticket service...