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Today's heady success is only the beginning, according to Burr. Says he: "In five years, People Express will be a worldwide transportation company, carrying people and freight, and packaging hotels and rent-a-cars, the works." Some skeptics, though, think that People could instead end up like Laker Airways, the cut-rate transatlantic carrier that expanded too fast and went bankrupt...
...matter what eventually happens to People Express, it has changed the airline industry forever. Burr, Lorenzo and other discounters proved that there was a huge untapped market for low-cost air travel. They have met the needs of millions of Americans. Says Venice Gorman, 31, a New York City hospital worker who flew on People to see her parents in Norfolk: "Before People Express, I used to stay home and call my relatives on the phone. Now I can visit in person...
When Congress deregulated the airline industry, it unleashed the powerful forces of competition into a field that had been tightly controlled. For the first time travelers have real choices. They can pick a People Express or a United, a Continental or a Delta. The competition has produced much confusion, and the best fares are not always easy to find. But customers today have a better chance than ever of flying where they want to go, when they want to go and at a price they want to pay. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta and Thomas McCarroll/New...
...surge in traffic was fostered by deregulation, which made it possible for entrepreneurs to launch new carriers and set their own prices. About 100 airlines now fly interstate routes, compared with 36 in 1978. In addition to People Express, many other new entries have had impressive takeoffs. New York Air is growing rapidly along the East Coast, Muse Air is doing well from its Houston base, and Jet America is carving out a niche with flights between California and the Midwest. Many others, though, have failed. After expanding too swiftly, Air Florida filed for bankruptcy in 1984 and then merged...
...Christmas Eve at Newark, a group of impatient travelers waited nearly three hours to board Flight 197 to Greensboro. At one point, a young man in blue jeans and a Chicago Cubs baseball cap shouted, "I've taken a poll, and everybody here is pissed off at People Express." When told that the plane was finally arriving at the gate, the crowd broke into applause and alleluias. One couple sang an impromptu song to the tune of Somewhere from West Side Story: "There's a plane for us. A time and plane...