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...troops launch risky operations in recalcitrant villages, engaging in fire fights to capture dusty caches of arms. "It's not a stretch to say they're putting their bodies on the line," says McDonnell. "It's simply the price of doing business in Afghanistan." From each hard-won haul, only a few items are usable. Soldiers have to sift through the duds, carefully X-raying weapons like mortars to identify ones worth salvaging. Funding from the U.S. Office of Military Cooperation is coming in waves: $6 million has already been spent, but a further $70 million...
...newly retired Swiss captain who came from the Swissair side, says the conflict has been fueled by jealousy. "We are better trained, have higher qualifications and undergo stricter selection criteria," he says. "It is normal that our salaries are higher. No airline will pay the same to long-haul pilots and those flying commuter planes." If the union persists in its demands, Swiss spokesman Markus Baumgartner warns, the company would have to restructure its route network in order to save money for the payout, a move that could cripple the fledgling airline. Meanwhile, management is trying to put old hostilities...
...labor pains, a series of technical mishaps, reportedly caused in part by corrosive hydraulic fluid, grounded 240 short-haul flights in recent weeks. They constitute a small percentage of Swiss' traffic, but this is not the kind of publicity an emerging airline needs. A hastily convened task force is investigating the glitches...
...Swiss facing a rough ride? "In its present format, yes," Moser says. "This airline was created on a purely emotional wave of nationalism, with no sound business plan. One key shortcoming is that with 41 long-haul destinations, Swiss is too big for a small country." But Garelli says Swiss chose the right strategy. "There is no future for a small country if it cannot guarantee a certain number of international point-to-point routes," he says...
...attacks, from which some of the traditional carriers have not yet recovered, the budget sector's stars are taking advantage of a traveler mindset in which the only thing that matters is price. "There is a massive opportunity for low-cost, whether it's people transferring for a long-haul flight or just point-to-point," says Adam Harris, sales and marketing director at Buzz, the U.K.-based, low-cost arm of Dutch airline KLM. "The whole outlook will change...