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...freight remains scarcely affected by the new restrictions, since cargo flights normally operate in the relatively quiet hours of the night. Essential military flights retain top priority. General aviation, which includes private traffic ranging from two-seaters to large corporate jets, has been cut back the most. The FAA is allowing its control centers to accept only about 35% of the previous level of such aircraft, which normally account for about 44% of the controllers' total work load. Both military and private pilots, however, can fly freely outside of controlled airspace under visual flight rules (VFR)-and are doing...
Moving both people and cargo regularly and reliably is one of the basic building blocks of any modern industrial economy, and increasingly that transport is done by air. Every day 800,000 passengers, 60% of them business travelers, settle down, buckle up and take off aboard 14,000 scheduled commercial flights, both domestic and international. In addition, 10,000 tons of air cargo containing everything from computer parts to goldfish are carried to destinations near and far. The immediate result is more than $30 billion per year in revenues to the airlines, and jobs for 340,000 employees, ranging from...
...Strauss, Memorex, Celanese and Exxon. Says Michael Kazeef, a manager for Alumax Inc., a leading aluminum producer: "In Washington State, the airport is 120 miles from our plant and going there was a big inconvenience. For any large company, an airport close by is a necessity. Vendors, salesmen, parts, cargo, company officials, you name it. We use the Charleston airport every...
...important new industries get their products to market by air transport. Much of the 1.2 million lbs. of air-freight cargo shipped every day out of Boston's Logan International Airport consists of computers, semiconductors and other microelectronics equipment manufactured by high-technology firms in the Boston area. Last week those shipments were leaving as usual...
That has been a relief to freight forwarding companies everywhere. In fact, in recent years, many such companies have begun operating, or sharply expanding, cargo-plane services of their own. Flying Tiger Line of Los Angeles, the largest U.S. all-cargo carrier (1980 revenues: $713 million), ships everything from oil-drilling equipment and Pharmaceuticals to machine parts, chemicals and cut flowers. Emery Air Freight Corp. of Wilton, Conn. (1980 revenues: $551 million), operates 62 aircraft serving 130 airports in North America, Europe and the Pacific. Federal Express of Memphis flies 60 jets delivering small packages overnight. Federal Express...