Word: flyering
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Some airlines are moving to deal with a particular peeve of the full-fare flyer: that once he or she managed to get a reservation and to elbow on board a crowded plane, chances were that the passenger sitting in the next seat and getting the same service had paid only a fraction as much. Indeed, in August, travelers on bargain tickets accounted for precisely 56.3% of the seats sold by the airlines, compared with 44.8% the year before. Trying to appease this irritated full-fare minority, American, Pan Am, TWA and British Airways have announced new sections in coach...
...owned by Gibbs Flite Center at Montgomery Field, eleven miles northeast of Lindbergh Field. Kazy, who had moved to California last year from Youngstown, Ohio, had just obtained a new job flying charter aircraft throughout the West and had asked his fiancéee, Jennifer Lefler, 25, also a flyer, to travel with him as copilot. One of his last scheduled assignments as an instructor was last week's flight. With him was Marine Sergeant David Lee Boswell, 35, who held a commercial pilot's license but wanted to upgrade his certificate by meeting the requirements for instrument...
...where honor and restlessness demanded that he resign. He was also good at spending money. The result was that his career continued to take peculiar turns-the commercial fishing venture, for instance-well after he had achieved what for an other man would have been professional security as a flyer and writer...
...aircraft pilots, and Newman, who has 6,000 hours flying time, is qualified to handle an airliner. Since ballooning on this scale is an expensive sport (they estimated the cost of their flight at $125,000), the fact that all are wealthy also helped. Newman is president of Electra Flyer Corp., one of America's largest hang-glider manufacturing companies. Abruzzo is a land developer who is also president of the Sandia Peak Ski Co. He and Anderson, the president of a uranium and copper mining company, have been ballooning together for years and have had their share...
...however, and Cummings, 68, making one of her too rare American appearances, gives a brilliant performance in what is almost a one-woman show. She gives each gesture the perfect size and commands every nuance; John Madden has directed with proper astringency. Wings is in every sense a high flyer...