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...executives at the major airlines scurry around Washington trying to sell Congress on a $24 billion bailout to save their suddenly endangered industry, one of the business? smaller players - CEO Jonathan Ornstein of Phoenix-based Mesa Airlines - has an idea: Start by saving yourself...
...Ornstein made airline history this week when he announced Mesa would be the first carrier in the U.S. to put its own security guards on its flights. "The airline industry is undergoing a fundamental shift and we have to consider making innovative changes," said Ornstein, who oversees an operation of 126 aircraft with 1,100 daily flights and flies flights for America West Express, US Airways Express and Midwest Express. "The industry should keep in tune with what is important to our customers and right now passengers are less concerned about traditional in-flight amenities and more concerned about safety...
...instance: "Why the hell are airlines still serving food when money could be spent instead on making sure passengers are safe?" as Ornstein put it bluntly in an interview with TIME. Long known as an outspoken and nonconformist airline executive, he commends America West Airlines for temporarily suspending food service in order to concentrate its resources on other issues - namely, the security measures that the industry desperately needs to convince Americans that it?s safe to take to the skies again...
...simple as money, Ornstein and his small-airline colleagues are also embarrassing the major carriers in another area: their paychecks. Given the huge economic hit the industry has taken in the last week, Ornstein and Mesa?s president will take huge pay cuts of 50 per cent, and the rest of the carrier's management will see their salaries cut by 20 per cent. Likewise, executives at Atlantic Coast Airlines, AirTran and Frontier Airlines also announced pay cuts for its top officials...
...want to eat," said Alia Ornstein '02 of Kirkland House. "I guess we'll go over to Lowell...