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Since Monday's horrific crash of American Airlines flight 587, we've been hearing a lot about black boxes, flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders. What does all of this in-flight technology do for us - and why do we still need...
...hospital, drawing blood samples from patients awaiting surgery. That paycheck went to cover the mortgage on her modest Minneapolis, Minn., home. To pay other bills--including parochial-school tuition for daughter Amy, 13--Lind worked 21 hours a week at Davanni's Pizza, a supplier of Northwest Airlines' domestic in-flight meals, where she earned $9 an hour...
...these days, the airlines are having a tough time getting customers to fly their formerly friendly skies. They are doing what they can--cutting rates (as well as staff), doubling frequent-flyer miles, installing titanium cockpit doors and, in the case of an Irish airline, offering an in-flight comedian. If it is fear of flying that is keeping folks home and not a new fondness for the hearth or a plummeting portfolio, perhaps there's help. As a matter of national interest, TIME has enlisted several advertising agencies to devise campaigns to return us all to the frequent-flyer...
...record number of tickets in one week. He took over the money-losing Ryanair in 1990 and made it profitable within a year. Even as others in the industry were cutting back earlier this year, Ryanair was growing, making short jaunts between 55 European locations and doing away with in-flight services from meals to magazines...
Bush's new idea for in-flight security is a very old idea: have federal marshals ride shotgun on the airliners, much as they did in the days of the stagecoach. There are now perhaps three dozen marshals to cover 30,000 daily flights. Finding and training marshals, as Bush proposes, will take months. Still, the idea of armed plainclothes marshals will serve as a deterrent...