Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make three in this case-they may well add up to ten." So says G. Robert Henry, 51, president of Pacific Air Lines. Henry's arithmetic stems from the profits he anticipates from a merger of Pacific and two other regional, or feeder, airlines: Phoenix's Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. The system, after approval by stockholders and the CAB, will cover eight Western states...
Until five years ago, Denver-based Frontier Airlines chugged along as a small feeder line, earning minuscule profits and quite a bit of ill will with an ancient DC-3 fleet that was forever running late. Since then, Frontier has picked up speed enough to become a leader among the nation's 13 local service carriers. In 1966, it not only earned the largest profit ($1,790,000) among the regionals but also showed the greatest increase (58%) among all U.S. scheduled airlines in revenue passenger miles-the number of paying customers multiplied by distance flown...
Commuter airlines are a phenomenon; as recently as three years ago, only twelve were in existence. The industry's growth is due ironically to the arrival of the jet passenger plane on trunk lines and lately on the nation's 13 feeder or local airlines as well. The jets are expensive to fill, and airlines, as a result, are flying farther between touchdowns and slashing service to smaller cities. "The simple fact of the matter," says HUB'S Bailey, "is that the big carriers can't afford to run a $5,000,000 airplane...
...without considering the total effect. The result is a great googleplex: hundreds of federal, state and local authorities that, oblivious of one another, spend $17 billion a year of taxpayers' money to work at purposes that often cross. Washington, for example, doled out $66 million in subsidy to feeder airlines last year, helping them to serve cities as little as 100 miles apart. At the same time, it poured $4 billion into freeway construction, often enabling motorists to cover the same downtown-to-downtown distance in about the same time...
Also being built is a new fuel supply system that will include a tank farm inside the base perimeter and individual feeder pipes to each of the Air Cav's 430 helicopter stands. The Cav burns about 85,000 gallons of fuel each day. Heart of the camp is the Golf Course, where the first troopers hacked out an airfield with a machete in one hand and rifle in the other. Today the Golf Course boasts a 3,300-ft. runway built of aluminum planking that can handle C-130 "Herky Bird" transports. Army engineers are busy paving everything...