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...choice Miami-to-London route, and has transferred 20 airliners to Continental, another unit of Texas Air. Two years ago, Eastern sold its computerized reservation system to Texas Air for $100 million -- a price most industry experts said was too low. Last October, Eastern agreed to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to Donald Trump for $365 million. Two days after the bankruptcy notice, Eastern Express, a Florida commuter airline owned by a Texas Air subsidiary, changed its name to Continental Express. Said J.B. Stokes, a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association: "It was either make the stand now, while...
...were not the only ones swept up in the battle. As the strike strangled airline operations, 9,500 nonunion secretaries, ticket agents and other workers were laid off. Aside from making a handful of flights between Miami and Latin American cities, the airline concentrated its efforts on keeping the Northeast shuttle flying so that the cash-rich deal with Trump would not fall through. To attract passengers, Eastern offered a temporary fare of $12 for weekend shuttle flights from New York to Washington or Boston, a fraction of its usual rate of $69. The tactic worked: the first flights sold...
Eastern, which reported about 100 flights Tuesday, is seeking to sell its profitable Northeast shuttle to billionaire Donald Trump for $365 million...
...didn't know I was making a comeback either. All I could think about was 'Oh My God, my thesis is due in 11 days."--Harvard women's fencing Captain Penelope Papailias about her rally from a 4-0 deficit to defeat Yale's top-ranked fencer at the Northeast Regionals last weekend in New Haven...
...yesterday, when Eastern announced its cutbacks, 48 flights had taken off, 20 of them on the Northeast shuttle, the airline said...