Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three months after admitting they have a serious customer-satisfaction problem ? and assuring Congress they could solve it on their own ?- the nation?s major airlines finally unveiled their self-imposed makeover on Wednesday. United Airlines will wheel out "Mobile Chariot" workstations during flight delays to help stranded passengers with rebooking, and will deploy 600 hand-held baggage scanners at its busiest airports to help find rerouted luggage. Continental promises a top-to-bottom "Customer First" program aimed at improving its communication with passengers. And that?s just to name a couple ?- the Air Transport Association, the airlines' umbrella group...
...TIME business reporter Julie Rawe, the whole thing smacks of window dressing. "These things are superficial ? they?re supposed to make life easier for customers when their plane is late or their flight is canceled," she says. "But the big problem is that one in four planes is late. Fix that, and you don?t need the cosmetics." Fixing that, however, means both costly overhauls for the airlines and slow-in-arriving upgrades of outdated FAA equipment. "Until then," she adds, "the airlines can hand out all the lollipops they want. But people are still waiting. Planes are still overbooked...
...tell that despite my protestations several of my readers have already dropped the paper and caught the next flight to Palo Alto. That's okay, I don't mind. Those who have stuck with me this far are obviously the people who agree that life is not about money...
...class they have purchased. NetJets owners can purchase a fraction of a plane up to the whole thing and get a proportional share of its air time. A one-eighth share of, say, a Cessna Citation V Ultra goes for $835,000, and each hour of occupied flight will cost you $1,242. Management and other fees are around $7,600 a month...
...straightforward approach, hoping simply to eyeball the object through a telescope. But black holes, which are formed by collapsed stars or compressed matter at the center of galaxies, are so dense that nothing--not even light--can escape their gravity. Last week, however, investigators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., announced that they had at last seen direct evidence of a black hole in action...