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Ultimately, many airlines would be happy to eliminate tickets altogether. "This is definitely part of a trend to reduce passengers' reliance on travel agents and ticketing," says Julius Maldutis, who follows the airline industry for Salomon Brothers. Valujet, a profitable 16-month-old Atlanta carrier that mostly plies the Southeast, has never issued tickets; travelers get confirmation numbers that they use to pick up boarding passes at airports. Southwest Airlines began offering all passengers the option of ticketless service this month. Even giants like United and Delta are testing similar systems. "As Delta becomes more competitive," says vice president Vincent...
...European Union, but Japan accepted aid from only 15 of them. Tokyo also turned down most offers of help from the U.S. military based in the country, though the American forces have tons of emergency supplies stockpiled and even offered to accommodate refugees aboard an aircraft carrier. Teams of doctors from the U.S. and France arrived to warnings that they could not practice medicine without Japanese licenses...
...EMILY R. CARRIER...
...other developments in the industry last week added fuel to passenger concern, this time about small airlines that fly large planes. Kiwi International Air Lines, an upstart carrier formed by laid-off airline workers, suspended flights for a time after FAA inspectors raised questions about its pilot-training records. And at New York's Kennedy Airport, the FBI disclosed that it was investigating sabotage in the electrical wiring of several jumbo jets belonging to Tower...
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