Word: morro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they can avoid the same fate? The answer begins with the 100,000 or so employees jettisoned by the airlines during the restructurings of the past six years. They constitute a formidable pool of skills itching to get back into action, at a cut-rate price. Air 21's Morro hires pilots for $40,000 a year, as opposed to $100,000-plus at the majors. First officers get $24,000, and flight attendants start...
Executives at the upstarts cross their hearts and deny any intention of stealing business from the wary giants. "We're not pulling traffic away from anyone," says Mark Morro, chairman of Air 21, which last December began flying Fokker F.28 4000s, leased from USAir, out of Fresno. "We're bringing passengers back to the airport." Lewis Jordan, president of ValuJet, which bases its 47-plane fleet in Atlanta, says Delta, its looming neighbor at Hartsfield Airfield, has nothing to fear. "We stole people from their living rooms and automobiles," he insists, not from Delta flights. Maybe, but ValuJet earned...
...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...
Hailed by New York magazine as "the next Bernstein" after his Metropolitan Opera debut last year, the soft-spoken, long-haired Nagano, 43, has so far managed to avoid the kind of premature hype that can capsize a career. Indeed, the onetime beach boy from Morro Bay, California, is still not widely known in the U.S., holding only the modest post of conductor of the Berkeley Symphony. "There's nothing wrong with wanting to be well known," says Nagano, "but that doesn't work for me. I just try to let my enthusiasm for what I'm doing guide...
...Miller has come back for the cat. The flames are only a few feet away. They look like something alive -- a platoon of flames, no, a battalion, marching across the brush toward the house Miller has lived in for five years in the El Morro Beach trailer park on the outskirts of Laguna Beach, California. His wife evacuated their trailer hours earlier, but when Miller heard the cat was here, he returned, hiking two miles when the police forced him to get out of his car. Now he can see the fire heading for his house, and not a fire...