Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although North Atlantic scheduled air travel was up about 9% for the first quarter of 1977, the increase would have been even greater had it not been for the stiff competition from charter airlines. Industry experts believe Pan Am's and TWA's experiments on the London route could show the scheduled carriers how to lure cost-conscious travelers without cutting into present economy-class revenues. After all, with more than a quarter of all Pan Am's seats between New York and London now being flown empty, every seat sold to a passenger who would...
Meanwhile, a 46-week-old strike in London has become a riveting symbol of the Labor government's failure to keep labor peace. Charter Road in northwest London has become the scene of ugly battles between police and protesters as a result of a walkout at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories...
...more: 9,318. Accessibility: fair. Allow 25 to 50 min. for 20-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($12). Buses ($3.50) go downtown every 15 min. (daytime), sporadically at night. Buses also serve suburban areas every one or two hours (daytime). Eight commuter airlines, charter helicopter service to Midway Airport and Meigs Field. Parking: easy. New close-in facility with 9,200 spaces. Flow Through: smooth. Sidewalk checkin. Insufficient baggage carts. Three terminals linked by five underground pedestrian tunnels (two longest have 255-ft. moving sidewalks), also by shuttle buses. Longest walk between entrance and plane...
...Force colonel at the Pentagon wisecracked that the U.S. might eventually have to "charter an air force from Pan Am." Better yet, said another, in case of conflict "we could subcontract the whole war." Still others joked bitterly about how the service had suffered "its highest attrition rate ever on a single...
True to his word, the murderer struck again last week, creeping up behind a couple parked on a tree-shaded street near a disco-théque in the borough of Queens and firing four shots from his .44-caliber Charter Arms "Bulldog." Though Judy Placido, 17, and Salvatore Lupo, 20, his tenth and eleventh victims, were wounded, both miraculously survived. But the latest, and most publicized, attack tightened the grip of fear on neighborhoods in Queens and in The Bronx, where the bizarre, psychopathic killer has chosen his targets...