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...carriers are scrambling to cut costs. TWA has laid off 2,500 employees; and United, which was grounded by a long strike last spring and is now being hurt by passengers cashing in and flying on half-fare coupons, has furloughed 195 pilots and 400 other employees. Braniff has pulled out of 23 of the 40 markets it entered a year ago. Pan Am, which last week got CAB approval for its plan to merge with National, has dropped some overseas routes...
Carter has not in the past looked especially kindly on Pan Am. In 1978, for instance, the CAB recommended that Pan Am be awarded a new route between Dallas-Fort Worth and London. Carter rejected the recommendation. Instead, he gave the route to Dallas-based Braniff Airways in what some critics thought was a blatant political bid for support of his energy program by Texas Congressmen. In short, though Pan Am's position is substantially strengthened by its majority holding, its merger with National is not yet guaranteed...
...Braniff Flight 922 from Bogota to Los Angeles is nicknamed "the cocaine special." One scam is for a passenger to hide the powder somewhere on the plane, clear customs in Los Angeles, reboard the plane for the continuation to San Francisco, then collect his hidden coke. Panel bolts in many planes are visibly worn from smugglers' screwdrivers. Four unclaimed kilos were found last month in one jet's nose cone...
...Kahn: "He is the President and has the right to make a judgment, and I have the right to disagree with it, which I do." One time, the CAB had recommended giving Pan American World Airways nonstop flights between Dallas-Fort Worth and London. Carter awarded the route to Braniff Airways. Kahn publicly disputed the ruling and considered resigning. "Then I counted to 24," he recalls, "and decided to stay because I was having such a good time." Kahn's wit makes his independence easier to take. During one meeting he snapped, "Every two minutes I feel like telling...
...wife Fran, 43, is somewhat in the background; the Benedict family is a decided patriarchy. A farmer's daughter, she worked as a stewardess for Braniff Airlines and met Pat during a layover in Fargo, N. Dak.; a sister of Pat's who worked at the hotel where Fran stayed introduced them. Fran is the secretary of Benedict Farms and does the bookkeeping. During planting and harvesting seasons she also runs the farm's communications network, relaying messages by private FM radio band between Pat's pickup truck, the other machines in the fields and the outside world?meanwhile whipping...