Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning was the letter carrier. When the brand-new Florida Marlins held their first open tryout six years ago, a stout 36-year-old mailman named Joe Ciccarone showed up in a Cubs cap and a softball jersey to audition at shortstop. At the time, Ciccarone told Gordon Edes of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, "When the Marlins win the World Series for the first time in the year 2011, I'll be able to tell my kids I was at their first tryout...
...relative comfort, speed and convenience of regional jets--the 50-seat versions of bigger planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines, which have insisted...
...guys were beaten to the punch by Comair, a commuter airline partly owned by Delta that now uses CRJs for 80% of its seating capacity. The carrier is adding one jet a month at least until the end of 1998, with conditional orders for 12 and options for 45. "The regional jet has really allowed them to go out there and serve some markets they couldn't serve with the turboprops," says Robert Holscher, director of aviation at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. "It's allowing feed into this airport by markets that couldn't be served profitably by Delta...
...larger markets, regional jets are being used to complement the big tubes. Cincinnati to New York's LaGuardia is one of the Comair routes that was out of range of the turboprops. Delta, the nation's third largest carrier, is using Comair's smaller jets in at least two dozen cities--among them Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City and Philadelphia--to adjust capacity when demand is too low for bigger jets. Delta has pulled 737s or MD-80s out of such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from...
There's a fine line between such worthwhile news photos and so-called "filler," but I believe that the line does exist. Using Monday's paper as an example, I'd classify the photo of the U.S. aircraft landing on a carrier in the Persian Gulf from the Real World page as worthwhile news. Harvard students should know about urgent movements of U.S. troops. On the other hand, the quarter-page photo on page A-6 of that same paper of a Paris fashion show featuring spring 1998 styles was unquestionably filler...