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...concrete evidence of Alaska-type problems at other carriers when it announced late last June that it would audit four safety systems at each of the nine other top airlines. It cited only unspecified "concerns." The other carriers audited--United, Delta, American, Continental, Northwest, US Airways, Southwest, America West and TWA--were, like Alaska, already participating in ATOS. "We had no real problems with the concept of the FAA coming in," notes John Marshall, head of safety for Delta Airlines...
Causing more than 200 injuries and well more than $2 billion in damage, last week's 6.8-magnitude Pacific Northwest earthquake was bad enough--but it wasn't the Big One experts say is still to come. While geologists predict a mega-quake still lies in Seattle's future, they are also looking at a different, equally dangerous big one that is literally looming on the city's horizon: MOUNT RAINIER, the snowcapped volcano that lies 50 miles to the southeast. Though slumbering, Rainier is still active, and last week's quake might have loosened deep rocks that hold molten...
...next stops are trickier. American's proposed purchase of a chunk of US Airways and its attendant asset-shuffling with United Airlines would leave American and United sharing half of the U.S. air travel market. Continental, Northwest and Delta have already squawked that such a state of affairs would force them to seek combinations of their own, most likely with each other. And thus would the present Big Seven airlines quickly become the Big Three...
...more pressing problem would seem to be the airlines' unreliable relationship with their employees. Bush cited the fragile economy as his main motivation for preempting a Northwest mechanics' strike that would have begun Monday, but some industry watchers think Bush has succeeded only in putting off the issue until the busy summer season. And with labor problems brewing seemingly across the industry - United is squabbling with its flight attendants, Delta with its pilots, and American recently went to court to stop work slowdowns by its mechanics and ramp workers - the power of unions in a three-airline...
...that's for another day. Monday was a happy day for an industry that hasn't had too many lately. TWA ticketholders find themselves with a solvent airline, the St. Louis hub will live on, and Northwest is flying its full schedule now that its mechanics remain...