Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Upon returning from their Thanksgiving holiday, the 37 members of MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will begin to search for new homes...
...Boston Licensing Board suspended the fraternity's housing license on Wednesday for eight months, beginning Jan. 15. The unanimous decision comes in the wake of the Sept. 27 alcohol-related death of Scott Krueger, a first-year Phi Gamma Delta pledge...
Somewhere in the Delta Airlines computer system sits an account containing some 500 mile points from a round-trip Delta Shuttle ticket to New York City. Other than that one trip, I've never flown Delta and don't plan to--but if I did, I've got my frequent-flyer card in my wallet. When friends tell me they don't belong to any frequent-flyer programs, I'm amazed. Why pay for tickets when you don't have...
...guys were beaten to the punch by Comair, a commuter airline partly owned by Delta that now uses CRJs for 80% of its seating capacity. The carrier is adding one jet a month at least until the end of 1998, with conditional orders for 12 and options for 45. "The regional jet has really allowed them to go out there and serve some markets they couldn't serve with the turboprops," says Robert Holscher, director of aviation at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. "It's allowing feed into this airport by markets that couldn't be served profitably by Delta...
...larger markets, regional jets are being used to complement the big tubes. Cincinnati to New York's LaGuardia is one of the Comair routes that was out of range of the turboprops. Delta, the nation's third largest carrier, is using Comair's smaller jets in at least two dozen cities--among them Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City and Philadelphia--to adjust capacity when demand is too low for bigger jets. Delta has pulled 737s or MD-80s out of such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from...