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American is fighting little Legend so hard because business travelers are the lifeblood of most airlines. Though these full-fare passengers--"road warriors," in air-travel lingo--make up just 10% of the typical carrier's customers, they account for nearly half its revenue. So adding or losing a few business types per flight can mean the difference between a profit and a loss--or, in Legend's case, between a new airline that thrives and one that does not. That's a daunting prospect in an industry that has seen only one airline, America West, survive...
...since then. Kelso, who was tarnished by the scandal, retired early. In his wake, women stormed aboard warships. They are now assigned to 155 vessels--106 of them combatants--and they account for 11,400 of the 155,000 officers and sailors afloat. Some ships have substantial numbers: the carrier Eisenhower has 600 women in a crew of 4,700. The Jarrett has only four, all officers, because the lack of berthing space has kept the enlisted ranks all male. By 2004, when nearly all vessels will be opened to women, the Navy is projecting that the average crew will...
Having women aboard--and especially one in command--has changed the atmosphere on the Jarrett. Personnelman Second Class Eldukl Ngiraingas was worried that working with women might make the crew less efficient. "I had a different kind of bonding when I was with all guys on a carrier," he says. "We didn't have to worry about offending people--everyone swore." But then he worked with a female colleague on a fire drill. "I found out that I didn't have to yell to get her to do something," he says. Another difference: modesty prevails. "You can't walk around...
...billion in annual oil revenue, they've flocked to Tripoli's few good hotels looking for deals--big ones. One of many companies on the ground is Airbus, the European aircraft consortium, which is primed to sell 24 passenger jets worth at least $1.5 billion to Libya's national carrier. That kind of uncontested sale does not sit well in Seattle, where Boeing is based...
...Weintraub said the carrier will do what everything it can to avoid "random chaos...