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...KIWI INTERNATIONAL Filing for bankruptcy, company cuts service by two-thirds and faces renewed competition...
...crash of a ValuJet DC-9 in the Florida Everglades, the FAA at last acknowledged that it is time to clean house and retool for the age of deregulation--which began in 1978. ValuJet chief Lewis Jordan signed a consent order grounding the airline, and another budget flyer, Kiwi, was ordered to cut back its fleet because of insufficient pilot training. The FAA administrator in charge of safety, Anthony Broderick, bailed out, while FAA head David Hinson and Secretary of Transportation Federico Pena vowed to turn their attention to such hot-button issues as the use of subcontractors for aircraft...
Twenty-five airlines have started up in the past seven years, and eight more are awaiting clearance from the Department of Transportation. They sport such names as Frontier, ValuJet, Air 21, Vanguard, Nations Air, KIWI and Western Pacific, and they promise that the competition is going to be different this time. They have staked their survival on two basic strategies. First, fly into a place, like Fresno, California, that the major carriers have largely abandoned. Second, don't pick the big guys' pockets; use low-fare, no-frills flights to expand the market. The idea isn't to steal market...
...supply of idling aircraft is matched by a supply of idling airline executives. "The airline business is tough," says ValuJet's Jordan, "but it's all we really know." Jordan is a former president of Continental. KIWI CEO Jerry Murphy spent 24 years at Pan Am; Western Pacific's chairman, Ed Beauvais, started America West; and Air 21's chairman, Mark Morro, co-founded and was president of Wings West Airlines. They have seen, up close, airlines struggling and going under...
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