Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from 22% to 19% in the past five years, partly because the CAB has kept it from expanding its routes at home as much as most other lines. Yet American has kept its profits aloft by paring costs and filling up its planes through promotional campaigns like the youth fare...
...machinists getting a raise of about 3.2 per cent, which, so the theory of the wage-price guideline goes, would reward them for increased productivity but not spur inflation. At the same time, the Administration, with an eye on industry profits, is pressing the airlines for reductions--the youth fare being one example of the government's successes...
...strike, hoping that a walkout in the middle of the industry's money-making season would cause the airlines to cave in quickly. Management probably would not have been too displeased by an expensive settlement, since they would then be able to plead poverty when the CAB demanded further fare cuts...
Four years ago Continental Airlines, a carrier winging westward from Chicago, ruffled some bigger birds in the industry by introducing jet "economy" air fares 20% below coach rates. That blue-yonder experiment helped to attract so many customers that Continental increased its revenues from $63 million in 1961 to last year's $117 million, and other lines quickly followed with an odd lot of special rates. Last week Continental was trying to pare fares again. It asked Civil Aeronautics Board permission to introduce nighttime "adult stand-by fares" one-third cheaper than the economy fare. For any passenger willing...
...expenses would have covered his plane fare from Washington, D.C.--his American Nazi headquarters are located nearby in Alexandria, Va.--and a night's hotel bill in Cambridge...