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...same place at almost the same time may have wondered whether all those trips were necessary. Alone among nations, the U.S. allows a flock of its airlines to compete on routes that can barely pay off for one. Probably the worst case of overcompetition is the Los Angeles-Honolulu route, covered by eight lines...
...asking for further fare increases of 4% to 10% on domestic flights. In addition, the airlines may well seek to drop some competing flights that take off at the same times, over the same routes, with mostly empty seats. Pan Am already has cut its West Coast-to-Honolulu flights from 80 a week to 40, and fired 378 men from its flight crews, since the CAB authorized six competing carriers to fly the same route. Last week Pan Am announced that on Sept. 16 it will drop the New York-to-Los Angeles portion of its New York-Honolulu...
Both, for instance, make a point of the Navy's decision to classify the intelligence-gathering cruise as a "minimal risk" operation. But Armbrister traces the planning process through the chain of command in Hawaii and Washington. At the Honolulu headquarters, it was a young ensign in the intelligence section who passed on the low-risk appraisal; an experienced specialist in North Korean affairs had been shunted aside for opaque reasons. In Washington, representatives of the Pentagon, State Department, CIA, White House and National Security Agency approved Pueblo's excursion. One ranking NSA official warned that the North...
Last week, at a conference in Honolulu, Korea pressed for reconsideration of the pullout. The U.S. indicated that the withdrawal was not negotiable. After two days of heated discussions, no timetable was agreed upon-though U.S. sources still expect up to 20,000 Army ground troops to be out by early next year. The U.S. did promise, however, to take several steps to bolster the 500,000-man ROK army...
...airlines are not ignoring complaints about crowding when planes fly close to capacity. Pan Am is contemplating discarding the food-service wagons that clog the aisles. Continental Airlines, which began 747 service on the Los Angeles-Honolulu run two weeks ago, reduced its seating capacity from 360 to 335. Using the extra space, it added a tourist-class bar and lounge in the tail...