Word: newark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Behind that seeming resolution of People's difficulties, however, the plot thickened. There were muted signs of a boardroom power struggle in Newark, the airline's headquarters, that might still be unresolved. People's financial woes, meanwhile, could hardly be described as over. At best, the deep-discount airline appeared to have bought additional, limited time in which to become a more traditional, full-service passenger carrier. That would be the very opposite of the strategy that in five years made the carrier's name a byword and irrevocably shook up the economics of U.S. flying...
...closed at only $6.75. There was considerable irony in the challenge that Burr and his brainchild were facing. Almost from its inception, People has been an air- industry legend--and headache--as Burr made air travel more accessible than ever before with his drastically lower fares. By last week Newark-based People had grown from a three-aircraft service in 1981 into a 117-jetliner network spanning 107 North American cities and including Brussels and London. But the company had strayed seriously from the keep-it-simple formulas that had made People a case study at business schools across...
...Newark airline has earned the nickname "People Distress." Its North Terminal center, once deservedly known as "the Pit," has improved over the years, but it still resembles a bus terminal at rush hour. A replacement facility is a year to 18 months away from completion. Horror stories have spread along the discount-fare grapevine of endemic baggage losses on People flights and of travelers stranded for hours in Newark, Denver or San Francisco. Chairman Burr protests that "we're as professional as any airline out there," but the stories have evidently hurt. One People way of fighting back...
Another People move, the February takeover for an undisclosed sum of Britt Airways, a Midwest commuter line with hubs in Chicago and St. Louis, has made more sense. Britt provides People with important feeder traffic into its Newark base...
From Amy, 200,000 New Yorkers, nine deep in some places, wound up Manhattan's West Side and over the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey. A 50-yd. stretch near Newark threatened to be the first gap, but at the last minute people in line stopped a commuter bus; the 40-plus passengers all cheerfully piled out to fill the hole. The first breaks developed in Pennsylvania, but the line wound south to Washington, where it was routed through the White House. Persuaded at the last minute by his daughter Maureen to take part, President Reagan stood somewhat stiffly...