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...They treat you just like cargo," goes a typical passenger gripe about cheap flights. That bit of hyperbole is getting to be closer to the truth as airlines battle to slash fares and frills. Eastern Airlines announced last week that beginning April 1 it will sell seats on late-night freight flights. The coast-to-coast fare for the "Moonlight Special" will be $98, in contrast to $129 for Eastern's least expensive daytime runs...
...corrupt Panamanian bankers have permitted the Colombians to take advantage of the strictest banking secrecy laws in the hemisphere by laundering drug dollars. Last June U.S. customs agents in Miami discovered that a DC-8 jet transport, owned by Inair, at the time Panama's largest air cargo company, was carrying more than a ton of coke, stuffed in freezers, neatly packaged in kilo-size parcels and specially coded for efficient delivery in the U.S. "They had been shipping the Colombians' coke for them for some time," says a former Inair associate...
...cargo-carrying Electras crashed in the past nine months. One broke up in flight over Pennsylvania, killing all four people aboard. The other missed its approach while trying to land in Kansas City; the three crewmen died...
...launch time was perhaps the best-kept secret of the mission. Many other details had been leaked to the press, prompting the Pentagon to start an investigation of the alleged security breach. The shuttle's main cargo was a military intelligence satellite called a SIGINT (for "signals intelligence"), which is able to intercept electronic messages. The 6,000- lb. bird was to be spring-ejected from the shuttle, then rocket-propelled into a geostationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator. The satellite will allow the U.S. to eavesdrop on traffic between Moscow and Soviet missile command centers. Using radar...
Started in 1982 by Stephen Quinto, 49, a Florida cargo pilot, Northeastern began with one aging DC-8 that ferried passengers between Fort Lauderdale and Islip, Long Island, near New York City. In two years the airline expanded to 17 destinations, including Chicago and Los Angeles, mostly by undercutting prices charged by its larger rivals. But Northeastern faltered in an ensuing fare war, when it could not raise enough capital to provide the airplanes it needed. Immediately after filing for bankruptcy, Northeastern began calling itself the New Northeastern Airline and selling tickets on its five most profitable routes...