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...walks the streets and notices a man in the window of a coffee shop. He is tall, curly haired, solidly built and, most important, reading R.D. Laing. To bed. Next morning, even before the gentleman turns T.R. out, he manages to turn her off by slipping her "a little cab fare"; Shock. Tears. Failure of communication. Alone once more...
...passenger break-even load factor v. 48% for TWA. Salvation through the merger route is improbable, as Halaby now concedes. What healthy domestic line would want to team up with a troubled giant? The chance of Government help is also a long shot, mostly because of congressional opposition. The CAB could award Pan Am some domestic feeder routes, but most domestic runs are already overcrowded...
...latest eruption came after Pan Am and TWA sent officers to Washington two weeks ago to ask the Civil Aeronautics Board to intervene in the fare fight. In a complex and involved maneuver, the lines wanted the CAB to ask the State Department to put pressure on the West German government; with that, the Bonn government was supposed to put pressure on Lufthansa to reconsider its new fares (as low as $210 round trip in the off-season...
...Figuring that the German government would balk if it knew that the U.S. airlines had directly inspired the diplomatic maneuver, the Pan Am and TWA officers asked that part of the 29-page transcript of their meeting with the CAB members be kept secret. No such luck. The CAB men, miffed that the lines wanted to bring the State Department into the act, put the transcript on public sale -at $1.50 a page...
...claim, while self-serving, is not without historical basis. The 22 trunk carriers certified in 1938 have shrunk to eleven today, and the four largest airlines-United, American, TWA and Eastern-have 70% of the domestic business. What the CAB must now decide is whether this trend, which could well result in the end of what competition remains among the major domestic carriers, is desirable-or, if it is not, whether it could be reversed. What neither the Federal Government nor the airlines themselves have yet produced is a viable overall plan for making sense of a business that remains...