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...week's end some 5,100 of PATCO'S 13,000 striking controllers, who earn an average of $33,000 a year, had been sent dismissal notices by the Federal Aviation Administration. Federal judges ordered U.S. marshals to haul five local union leaders off to jail for defying court injunctions against the strike. Some leaders were marched away in handcuffs and shackled from waist to feet in chains?standard procedure for a federal arrest?adding a note of high drama to the crackdown...
...controllers' walkout are, of course, the airlines. The industry is already in the midst of an unprecedented upheaval as a result of the Federal Government's decontrol of routes and fares. Washington's action has spawned a whole new generation of regional and short-haul carriers that are slashing prices, adding routes and grabbing business away from some of the largest and best-known American carriers. Since January, passenger volume on American Airlines has slumped by 3.8%, while on TWA it is down 10.7%. Though American managed to inch back into profitability during the first six months...
...each.) The M1's advanced turbine engine gulps fuel at the staggering rate of 3 gal. per mile. Its armor (60.3 tons) makes it so bulky that it cannot be carried aboard any cargo plane except the Galaxy, the biggest thing on wings. Even a Galaxy can haul only one Abrams. Result: the M-l can be used only in areas to which it can be sent leisurely by ship, meaning Europe and possibly
Take your average family from Los Angeles: Dad's gotta have a car to get to work. Mom's gotta have a car to run all those errands. Juedye (Judy) has to have one to get to the health food store. Mack needs a pickup truck so he can haul around babes in the back of it (you really shouldn't show your face at a beach down there unless you got a pick up to haul around babes in). And little Flowertruth has to have one for her 16th birthday. And each family has a couple of spares...
...same time that smaller carriers are expanding their point-to-point runs, many regional lines have begun augmenting their so-called hub-and-spoke operations, self-contained little networks, with longer-haul service. Larger carriers, meanwhile, are developing new hub-and-spoke systems too. Such operations allow the lines to increase revenues by gathering passengers through the spokes, then flying them longer distances...