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Rather than cause brief setbacks to the airline industry's fortunes, 9/11 and the recession exposed a raft of deeper problems: high fixed costs, a convoluted fare structure, a boom in online bargain hunting by consumers and the growing disaffection of business travelers and their bosses. The full-service airlines' soak-the-rich business model, which has always prized maximizing revenue over operational efficiency, looks all but busted...
...comes out on Day Two, and the festival's eponymous mountain finally puts in a brief appearance: the snow-capped peak looms high above the natural amphitheater to stage left. The audience swells to more than twice the size of the first day's; ticket prices are slashed, and whole families from the environs of Lijiang turn up. Miao minority women in ornate, outsize headgear wander the periphery and look on curiously; sanitation workers move through the crowd picking up garbage with chopsticks. I catch only one whiff of dope smoke?surprising, considering that cannabis grows wild all over Yunnan...
...market conditions, the report cited the souring of relations since last September's terror attacks on New York and Washington, the trillion-dollar lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims and talk among some conservatives about freezing Saudi assets as reasons for the alleged capital flight. The news triggered a brief dip in the value of the dollar against other currencies before jitters were calmed by subsequent reports questioning the FT's claims...
...brief history of Iraq attack
...Sept. 10, 2001," says Patricia Friend, head of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), which represents 50,000 at 26 airlines. Although Congress mandated last November that flight attendants receive cabin-defense training, the AFA claims the training has been inadequate: classes offered by most airlines have been brief (as short as 45 minutes) and have included little or no hands-on instruction. "If there is another attack, we cannot protect our passengers," says Friend...