Word: deltas
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...maybe too bad that the airlines have decided to get into the act. Orbitz, an online travel web site funded by the five major U.S. airlines - United, Delta, Continental, Northwest and American (or, where applicable, their corporate parents) - is now set for a launch in June after the Department of Transportation said Friday it would not stand in the service...
...rise is significantly larger, the result could be disastrous. With seas rising as much as 3 ft., enormous areas of densely populated land--coastal Florida, much of Louisiana, the Nile Delta, the Maldives, Bangladesh--would become uninhabitable. Entire climatic zones might shift dramatically, making central Canada look more like central Illinois, Georgia more like Guatemala. Agriculture would be thrown into turmoil. Hundreds of millions of people would have to migrate out of unlivable regions...
...lied to by a Delta representative and he told me I couldn’t get on my plane...
...annual Airline Quality Rating report, released Monday and co-authored by professors at the University of Nebraska and Wichita State University, is a ringing indictment of almost every major airline. While there were a few pleasant surprises, including Alaska, Southwest and Delta Airlines' relatively strong showings, for the most part the picture is pretty dismal. "The airlines promised two years ago to clean things up, and they just haven't," says Richard Gritta, professor of finance at the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland in Oregon...
...That's bad news for the brass at the major airlines, many of which face the looming threat of strikes as the busy summer travel season draws near. American, Delta, TWA and Northwest are all embroiled in serious labor disputes, and, as Gritta points out, a study like this one will only add fuel to labor's fire. "I suspect these new numbers will really bring the situation home to management: We've got Congress pushing controls and we've got the public ticked off. If we push the unions, things could blow up," Gritta says...