Word: panning
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...between any American city and any foreign one, and he need not bother to state a reason. Just before Christmas, Jimmy Carter exercised that prerogative in a fashion that caused his own chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board briefly to consider resigning, and that is now leading Pan American World Airways to scream about undue political influence. Reason: it lost a juicy route to Dallas-based Braniff Airways...
...Midwest or South; only ten cities had previously served as gateways to Europe (see map). He granted TWA the right to fly nonstop to Europe from Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Kansas City, Mo. Northwest Airlines, which had no flights to Europe, picked up unused Pan Am rights to fly to Scandinavia from several cities across the nation. Delta Air Lines, which until now has been primarily a domestic carrier with no European routes, got the right to fly from Atlanta, its head quarters, to London; Miami-based National Airlines can add service from New Orleans...
...President made two key alterations in the CAB proposal. The board had recommended that National be allowed to fly only to Paris; the President added Amsterdam and Frankfurt. More important, the CAB had decided by a 4-to-1 vote that Pan Am be chosen to open service on the potentially lucrative route from Dallas-Fort Worth to London. Its reason: Pan Am, which only in the past two years has begun to earn a profit after years of heavy losses that at one point drove it to the brink of bankruptcy, could not stand any more competition. Carter gave...
When CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn heard the news by phone in a doctor's office, he considered quitting on the spot, but thought it over for 24 hours and decided to stay. Pan Am was less charitable. Stormed William Seawell, the airline's chairman and chief executive: "We are outraged." The White House order, he said, "appears to have been dictated by the kind of political manipulation the President promised would not characterize his Administration...
...Pan Am flight engineers charged last week that Carter had been subjected to pressure from Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe, "and possibly even from one high-ranking member of the Administration who is a former Braniff director." The reference was to Robert Strauss, who was Democratic National Chairman when Carter was nominated for President and is now Carter's chief trade negotiator. Pan Am asked the CAB either to stay the new route awards for 90 days or grant the routes only on a temporary basis. To no avail; last week the CAB staff was readying a final order...