Word: delta
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Airlines: "Unless we can find a way to lower our own costs, they're going to drive us out of many markets." Southwest has been wreaking turmoil in California, where intrastate fares averaged $200 before it shook up the market in 1991 with $59 tickets. Since then, American, Delta and USAir have scaled back operations in the state, leaving Southwest the No. 1 carrier, with 31% of the business. After Southwest began St. Louis, Missouri-Kansas City, Missouri, service in 1991 and Cleveland, Ohio-Chicago last year, average fares for those routes nose-dived from about...
...again boomed to nearly 3 million and faces grave ecological threats. The gleaming city that Arab poet Ibn Dukmak compared to "a golden crown, set with pearls, perfumed with musk and camphor, and shining from East to the West," is slowly sinking into the unstable, sewage- contaminated Nile Delta...
...collapse of the deal marked a victory of sorts for American, United and Delta airlines. The Big Three charged that the arrangement would siphon off international business unless Britain reciprocated by granting them increased access to Heathrow, London's main international gateway...
Northwest, for example, barely averted a Chapter 11 crash landing by securing $2.2 billion in new financing and cancellation or delay of a whopping $6.2 billion in orders for new aircraft. And just a week after industry leader American Airlines was forced to let go 576 of its managers, Delta chairman Ronald Allen conceded that layoffs and pay cuts may be necessary at his carrier too. Perhaps the most dramatic evidence of the industry's deepening distress is TWA's decision in effect to call in the cavalry. Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, who will retire at the end of this...
...stage and makes an announcement. It's House of Blues Day in Massachusetts--well, for two more hours, anyway--and Tigrett commences the jam. And friends, this is the mother of all blues jams. Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) and the Blues Brothers Band kick off the show, followed by delta blues musician Honeyboy Edwards and Robert Johnson's stepson, Robert Lockwood Jr., who learned guitar from the Great One himself. Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, a Chicago guitar kingpin who has shared the stage with the likes of Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, the Allan Brothers and the Rolling Stones, sweats...