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...local and state politicians, and get a major new runway built at every large airport that can physically accommodate it. Big airlines often try to block these projects in order to keep out competitors. Says Allan McArtor, former head of the FAA and CEO of troubled start-up Legend Airlines: "The biggest deterrent to new airport planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve." The FAA is on the right track in attempting to transform nearly two dozen former military airfields like...
...drawn to a display about rehabilitation, which consisted of four tableaux incorporating life-size mannequins. The first tableau showed two youngsters shooting up; they have long hair, faded jeans and T shirts bearing the legend "Bad to the Bone." The next showed one junkie in handcuffs and the second lying dead with a syringe sticking from his arm. Then we see the survivor in a hospital bed surrounded by caring medical staff. Finally we witness the junkie's glorious rebirth. He now has short hair and wears a crisp green longyi, or Burmese sarong, and a white waistcoat...
...local and state politicians, and get a major new runway built at every large airport that can physically accommodate it. Big airlines often try to block these projects in order to keep out competitors. Says Allan McArtor, former head of the FAA and CEO of troubled start-up Legend Airlines: "The biggest deterrent to new airport planning is the resistance and political clout of major carriers. Dominant airlines must stop fighting new airport development if the entire system is going to improve." The FAA is on the right track in attempting to transform nearly two dozen former military airfields like...
Here's a novel idea for an airline: "People don't need to be treated like cattle." Founder David Neeleman's basic premise is giving lift to jetBlue, the lone, thriving survivor of a disastrous year for new airlines. In recent weeks, such upstarts as Pro Air, Legend and National all went bust, casualties of high fuel prices and hypercompetition from the big boys. That's not as likely to happen to jetBlue, whose business plan is well designed, well funded and well targeted...
...tricks in True History of the Kelly Gang (Knopf; 352 pages; $25), which purports to be a first-person narrative written by Ned Kelly, the outlaw who terrorized and enchanted Australians during the 1870s and who remains something of a national hero and legend...