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Southwest has other advantages beyond its work force. It flies point-to-point domestic routes, as opposed to the complex and expensive hub-and-spoke international networks operated by other major airlines. There are no meals served onboard, no bulky drinks carts and no entertainment. Where it makes sense, as at Oakland International Airport in California and Midway Airport in Chicago, Southwest uses less expensive, less crowded secondary airports. It flies only one type of aircraft--the Boeing 737--to reduce maintenance costs and turnaround time, and it contracts out its most intensive maintenance work. That allows the airline...
...hour-long training course is a small but important part of Mauritius' ambitious plans to turn itself into a hub for information and communications technology. The Indian Ocean island boasts one of Africa's most successful economies. Under French and then British control, nearly all available land was given over to growing sugarcane. But after independence in 1968, the government pinned development on diversification, luring Asian textile manufacturers with cheap labor and tax-free exporting zones. In the 1980s the country also invested in tourism and offshore banking. Economic growth has exceeded 5% a year over the past two decades...
Yanni: That’s tough. I don’t like Harvard Square at all, Harvard is a waste of space. I hang out a lot in Boston, at the Lounge at Top of the Hub, but that’s not really a restaurant. I also like Spinnaker and Bisuteki in Boston...
MARKET DAYS A bone-jarring two-day jeep ride across Kyrgyzstan's border with China lies Kashgar, a hub on the Silk Road for more than a millennium. Camel trains laden with tea and textiles would emerge from the Taklamakan Desert, meeting other traders descending from the lofty Pamir Mountains, all survivors of terrible deprivation and brigandage. The glory days might be long gone but so are the bandits, and Kashgar welcomes ordinary tourists eager to see Central Asia's most spectacular market...
...time, Swissair was embarking on an aggressive expansion, later dubbed its hunter strategy, which involved making alliances with and taking equity stakes in other small airlines in a bid to become one of the big players in Europe. Doing a deal with Sabena gave the Swiss access to a hub in Brussels, the heart of the European Union. Even without a majority stake, they were given operational control of Sabena. Sabena's new Swiss CEO, Paul Reutlinger, the former marketing chief at Swissair, began pushing a rapid-expansion policy. During his tenure, from February 1996 until August 2000, Sabena more...