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...wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation construction outfit asked for $20 million to build a hanger at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes asked the small contractor who built his home to do it instead for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess in the airline industry," he says. "The challenge is to change the mind-set of staff so they eat, sleep and breathe costs...
Clarification: Nearly $1.18 billion of that money was awarded to BDM, a U.S. defense contractor, for training the Saudi military. At the time, BDM was owned by the Carlyle Group, on whose advisory board George H.W. Bush served. But the elder Bush didn't join that board until five months after Carlyle sold...
MILESTONES: A CIA contractor is indicted; a G.O.P. pollster is dead...
...Master Builder" [June 7]: it is astonishing how closely intertwined Halliburton, the biggest contractor in Iraq, and the Pentagon are. Wherever the military goes, Halliburton seems to be perched on its shoulder to scavenge profits from the rubble of war. And as if Halliburton's mission weren't unsavory enough, ex-employees intimate that the company has been gorging itself on taxpayer dollars via inefficient no-bid contracts. The Pentagon needs to dissociate itself from this bloated vulture ASAP. ULYSSES LATEINER Somerville, Mass...
INDICTED. DAVID PASSARO, 38, civilian contractor employed by the CIA; on assault charges, for allegedly beating an Afghan detainee who later died; in Raleigh, N.C. The four-count indictment, which carries a prison term of up to 40 years, is the first against a civilian in the prisoner-abuse investigations in Afghanistan and Iraq...