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True to Lorenzo's aim, Continental was again flying last week. Within 54 hours of filing petitions for reorganization under bankruptcy laws in Houston, it had re-established service to 25 of the 78 cities it had served. It fired all 12,000 employees and then invited 4,000 back at barely half their former wages. Senior Continental pilots who used to average $83,000 a year could return, but at salaries of $43,000. Flight attendants who had worked their way up to $35,700 were cut back to $15,000. Senior mechanics saw their wages shrink from...
Stunned, angered and confused at first by Continental's unexpected shutdown, passengers by last week soon lined up ten deep at its ticket counters to grab "introductory" fares of $49 to fly anywhere nonstop on the airline's domestic system. At Terminal C of Houston's Intercontinental Airport, Bonnie Hash, 22, stood at the end of a line of 53 people, waiting to swap the return portion of a $425 round-trip ticket to Seattle for a $49 one. "It's inconvenient," said she, "but it's worth the wait." It is still not sure...
...have happened to this industry. I have the job of trying to steer through some stormy waters." But if Continental is successful in breaking its union contracts through bankruptcy, several other airlines may go down that same runway. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Washington and Lianne Hart/ Houston with other bureaus
More than 60% of Houston public school teachers taking a competency exam last spring failed. The example is not surprising. Nationwide, education majors tend to come from the lowest strata of students: last year they scored 32 points below the national average on the verbal portion of the SAT test and 48 points lower on the mathematics section. Says James Guthrie, former chairman of the department of education at the University of California at Berkeley: "In the past, the quality of American education was maintained by women and minorities. Now these people can do other things...