Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aggregate net loss. Six of the twelve major carriers already have reported deficits totaling $92 million for the first half of 1970. The biggest losers: TWA, with $44.5 million, and United, with $20.7 million. The airlines have obligated themselves to pay a cool $10 billion to convert to the jumbo 747 and other wide-bodied jets, the DC-10 and L-1011-$6.6 billion for the planes themselves, the rest for additional equipment and ground facilities. The industry has also saddled itself with costly new routes, and the giant jets are at least temporarily running up expenses faster than they...
Since it took to the skies in January, Boeing's 747 has had the multibillion-dollar superjet market all to itself. Last week in California, two hungry competitors served notice that Jumbo's period of splendid isolation is coming...
Vacationers by the tens of thousands poured across the countryside last week toward mountains, lakes, trout streams and ocean beaches. Nearly as many, brandishing credit card and camera, were climbing aboard 747 jumbo jets and chartered 707s for London, Rome, Madrid or Tokyo. In Washington, the U.S. Passport Office has accumulated a backlog of 30,000 new applications. The New Orleans passport director has a bleeding ulcer...
...troubles there were. Defective air conditioning, blinking cabin lights and long lines in front of the twelve toilets have inconvenienced passengers aboard the jumbo plane. Pilots have had to cope with sticky controls, inadequately lubricated engine instruments and an anti-icing valve that stuck. A forced evacuation of one plane, because of an engine fire, turned up a flaw in the emergency chute: it peels the panty hose right off women in miniskirts. In addition, the giant Pratt & Whitney engines have been particularly troublesome. The latest difficulty involves bolts that occasionally loosen in flight and permit a small metal plate...
...flight, passengers behave differently on board a jumbo than on a smaller jet. "A gregariousness has set : in that we did not reckon on," says Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby. Passengers wander up and down the two aisles, try to help the stewardesses or invade the first-class flight lounge on the top deck. Of the 15,000 whom Pan Am has polled, about three-quarters praise the 747's spaciousness; the other one-quarter dislike the crowds or occasional delays in baggage handling. Passengers once were tied up for three hours at Rome's major airport after...