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...competition for UAL has grown frantic now that the carrier has narrowed its search to nine sites, scattered from Denver to Martinsburg, W. Va. Pitchmen in the farm town of Rantoul, Ill., have put together $300 million worth of free land and other incentives, hoping to substitute UAL for nearby Chanute Air Force Base, slated to close in 1993. In January a special session of the Oklahoma legislature approved a new 1% sales tax to pay for tax concessions, job-training subsidies and other lures. Boasts Ed Bee, Oklahoma City's economic development director: "We have a done deal." Well...
...desperate effort to bypass the electronic logjam, officers from the U.S.S. Saratoga began running a 200-mile helicopter shuttle from their Red Sea position to Riyadh. There the day's orders were copied onto a floppy disk, flown back to the carrier, transferred to hard drive and distributed...
...only by auctioning off pieces of itself, agreed to sell its valuable gates and landing slots at Heathrow to United Airlines for $290 million. Ailing TWA soon followed suit, accepting a $445 million offer for its spots at Heathrow from American Airlines. British Airways, the world's largest international carrier (20 million passengers last year) took one look at the two giants setting up shop at the next terminal and squawked. Says Matthew Stainer, a London airlines analyst: "Its only U.S. competition was Pan Am and TWA. Both are good people to compete with because they are walking disaster areas...
...American will be allowed to go ahead with their plans. American will then control 17% of the transatlantic market. United will have 14%, while BA has only 11%. United also wins the right to fly to several European cities from London. U.S. officials agreed to restrain the two carriers at first, limiting them this year to the number of flights to London previously approved for Pan Am and TWA. In another concession, Washington will allow a second British carrier, most likely Virgin Atlantic Airways, to fly from Heathrow to the U.S. Virgin reacted to this news by slashing...
British Airways won several major concessions for ceding ground to such formidable new competition. Perhaps most important, it will be the only foreign carrier allowed to carry passengers to the U.S. without passing through its home country. In practical terms, this means that BA will have an edge on other European transatlantic carriers. BA also won fly-through rights, which means that it will be permitted to land in the U.S., pick up other passengers and continue to South America, the Caribbean or even Asia. The profitable English giant may expand its U.S. web by taking advantage of new Department...