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That's just the kind of glowing report that has major airlines fighting for their lives. Low-fare carriers are no longer simply competing on ticket price, they are also raising the bar with the services they offer. While the Big Six airlines (American, Delta, Continental, Northwest, United and US Airways) struggle with high costs and dissatisfied passengers, small, low-cost airlines like JetBlue, AirTran, Frontier and Spirit have learned to please customers, make money and grab market share, all at the same time. They have become major players in the industry. Low-fare carriers, including pioneer Southwest Airlines...
...desperately trying to adapt to the new rules of the marketplace. They are striving to match the smaller airlines' fares, and American and Delta just started giving away tickets to counter JetBlue's recent expansion. But the most dramatic escalation of the air war is the creation of two totally new airlines. Next month United, which has been in bankruptcy since December 2002, plans to start flying its own knock-off low-fare airline called Ted. Flying initially from Denver to Las Vegas and Fort Lauderdale, it will offer customers a multichannel entertainment system called Ted TV. Ted is aimed...
...entrants from United and Delta face a difficult battle against this latest generation of low-cost carriers. Major airlines have tried many times in the past to start an airline within an airline to compete against low-cost competitors. All such attempts have failed. United and Delta are trying again, a sign that they realize their financial problems will not be solved simply by getting over the post-9/11 travel slump and the recent recession. "We know which way the industry is going--towards quality, low-cost carriers," says John Selvaggio, the head of Song. "We had to play...
...flat tire flapping crazily. Whiteside climbed out of the turret and began trying to resuscitate the lieutenant. Colgan made a gurgling sound. He has a wife and kids, Whiteside thought. We've got to keep him alive. Buxton grabbed the radio handset. "This is Tomb Raider 6-3 Delta," he said. "Lieutenant Colgan is down...
Among the guards is Sergeant P., who, like almost everyone else at Camp Delta who has contact with the detainees, covers the name on his uniform with duct tape so the prisoners can't identify him now or ever. Sergeant P. did not even want his full last name used in this story. A middle-school teacher in his nondeployed life, he, along with some of the other guards, was handpicked because of his experience with juveniles. "We do a lot of math and science with them," he says. "We don't try to indoctrinate them in Americanism." The juveniles...