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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the travelers are old enough and isolated enough to need the trip as a passage out of lonely routines and back into society. Driver Michael Torrey pulls up to the casino around 11:30 a.m. and waits as his passengers move inside to swap their coupons for coins. "You'd think she'd need a walker," he says, pointing at an elderly tourist painfully climbing a ramp to the Boardwalk. "But she's in Atlantic City. Look at the willpower...
...save money by lowering its standards on maintenance and other safety measures? Everyone from passengers to politicians has begun to debate that question as billion-dollar takeover wars sweep the U.S. airline industry. Says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation- research group: "Buyouts need careful scrutiny, particularly with regard to maintenance practices. Safety must be paramount, and safety has suffered when maintenance is shoddy...
...Carriers are eager to pay wages that range from about $13.50 an hour for newcomers to $20.50 for journeymen. Says Richard Delaney, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers local at Chicago's O'Hare Airport: "The aging fleets take a lot more maintenance work. You need more people. We are growing, but not at a rate that's going to satisfy demand...
Airlines are scrambling to buy new aircraft, but the huge growth in air travel has forced them to keep many of their older planes in the air even as the modern ones arrive. According to the Future Aviation Professionals of America, an Atlanta-based group, U.S. carriers will need 50,000 new mechanics by 1997 as the airlines take delivery of 3,000 new jets with a value of more than $40 billion...
...vice president for maintenance operations, "and we're looking at another 1,000 in the next six months for the care and feeding of older planes." But that is just the beginning. "As our fleet expands and our service to Europe starts up next year, we're going to need another 1,000 to 2,000 more maintenance people each year...