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...Indeed, air carriers find themselves in a peculiar bind. Demand is high: the number of domestic air travelers is forecast to grow by at least 25% a year through 2010, according to Sydney-based Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), an industry consultancy. Yet due to the air-transportation system's capacity constraints, carriers are being forced to fight for new business by engaging in profit-destroying fare wars. Air Deccan, for example, advertises a special fare of just $6.60 plus taxes for a flight from New Delhi to Jaipur. Add in higher fuel prices...
...meanwhile, Jet Airways, the country's largest full-service carrier, is buying rival Air Sahara for $340 million. The mergers are "an attempt by players to basically get some kind of stability into the market," says Kapil Kaul, New Delhi-based CEO for India and the Middle East at CAPA. "There's been a massive induction of capacity over the past few years. What we're seeing now is sanity beginning to prevail...
...Further consolidation is likely. India, which has 13 airlines today, will eventually have just two or three full-service carriers and three or four budget airlines, predicts Kaul of CAPA. Their health may depend on how quickly planned airport improvements are completed. A new airport is scheduled to open in Bangalore next year; work is also underway on new terminals in New Delhi and Mumbai (formerly Bombay) with completion set for 2010 and 2012 respectively. These improvements can't come soon enough for travelers like Mehta, the New Delhi interior designer. "We've got all these new planes and flights...
...brought [modern day] martyrdom alive,? says Scott Moreau, a professor of missiology at Wheaton College. ?It made it real.? But, in fact, two accelerants came into play. The first magnifier was a favorable story in LIFE magazine about the deaths with photos by a well-known war photographer, Cornell Capa. (The killings were also covered by TIME (You may note that in the archive article this tribe is referred to as Aucas). At that point, says Moreau, evangelicalism, which had only recently begun to separate from a more hard-edged fundamentalism, was still laboring under a near-pariah status dating...
...picture of a man staring up at one of the smoking World Trade Center towers perfectly renders the initial astonishment before it turned to horror. Letizia Battaglia, who risked her life to photograph the Mafia in Sicily, is treated with no less respect than exemplary war photographer Robert Capa. Gideon Mendel, who has doggedly tracked aids around the world, has equal billing with Martin Parr, England's foremost photographic satirist of class and consumerism. In his wicked portrait of a couple seated in a restaurant, the romance of married life seems to belong in the barely remembered past. The book...