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...Monster." One of the worst blazes recorded in the American West, the fire in eastern Arizona has consumed nearly half a million acres. All but 5,000 of 30,000 residents forced to flee the inferno were allowed to return after firefighters secured the area around the commercial hub of Show Low. But for more than 400 households, home was a charred ruin. The fire continued licking westward, devouring a canyon below the town of Forest Lakes...
...self-sufficient business using no city tax dollars, it had $44 million in surplus revenues last year (down from $76 million in 2000). It ranks near the top in most surveys of consumer satisfaction and has attracted six new carriers in the past year, providing fresh competition in a hub dominated by United Airlines...
...Bahru into a second Singapore by spending millions of dollars upgrading the roads and water supply, developing every inch of the 2,000 acres on which the port sits?the goal is to double or treble current capacity?and transforming the town's airport into a major air-cargo hub. Mahathir and one of Mokhtar's lieutenants made a conspicuous detour to visit the Federal Express headquarters in Memphis during the Prime Minister's triumphant visit...
...past nine months, with security hassles and terrorist fears driving away air travelers and costing the industry more than $9 billion. Continental was one of only two major airlines earning a profit before Sept. 11 (the other was Southwest Airlines), and Continental in March became the first traditional hub-and-spoke carrier to report a return to pretax profit. Alas, the bottom line turned red again in April, and Bethune predicts more rough weather ahead if the majors don't "wise up"--that is, stop adding seats and start raising fares. "It's a challenging business, which some...
...telling that when Bethune talks about "the industry"--including his assertion that all airlines are losing money--he really means full-service hub airlines: American, United, Delta, Northwest Airlines, Continental and U.S. Airways. He omits Southwest--long the industry's best-run and most profitable carrier, whose market capitalization is larger than the Big Six's combined--and other moneymaking budget carriers like Frontier Airlines and start-ups like JetBlue Airways...