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...Delta Air Lines Marketing Vice...
...articulate while Finch was incoherent, organized while Finch was chaotic, and cerebral while Finch relied on good ol' home-grown common sense. Carmichael--a rich Volkswagen dealer--was the sweetheart of the more intelligent and wealthier 'Mississippians. In the election he carried Jackson, some coastal districts and the Mississippi Delta where plantations still abound and wealth and income disparities are astoundingly great. But the "working men" of Mississippi united. The establishment was overthrown. The "people" had their...
...replace present fleets of arthritic 707s and DC-8s. The expectation is that most airlines will turn to wide-bodied jets, to reduce mileage and passenger seat costs. Currently, Boeing engineers are working on the specifications for a new 180-to 200-seat jet, which it hopes United and Delta will buy; the plane would seat seven abreast and, Boeing claims, effectively compete with McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 and Lockheed's TriStar L-1011. Meanwhile, Lockheed is coming up with a sleeker version of the L-1011, to be delivered to British Airways next year. McDonnell Douglas, already...
...granted TWA the right to fly nonstop to Europe from Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Kansas City, Mo. Northwest Airlines, which had no flights to Europe, picked up unused Pan Am rights to fly to Scandinavia from several cities across the nation. Delta Air Lines, which until now has been primarily a domestic carrier with no European routes, got the right to fly from Atlanta, its head quarters, to London; Miami-based National Airlines can add service from New Orleans and Tampa to its existing Miami-London route. Pan Am was told it could start flying...
...back-room White House lobbying on airline awards. Ford had ordered that no "interested parties" be allowed to talk to the President on international airline cases. The consumerists noted that George Busbee, Carter's successor as Governor of Georgia, had visited the White House to press home-state Delta's claim for generous treatment. Carter spokesmen contended that there was no "impropriety" because Ford's order did not apply to elected officials...