Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frenzied battle for the business flyer, airlines are forever trying to outdo themselves. TWA and Pan Am, among others, arrange their seats four or six (instead of eight) across in what is called business class. This is nicer than coach but a little less plush than first class, which tends to cause jitters among the watchdogs who monitor corporate expense accounts. With all of that, could revamping of the seat itself be far, uh, behind? Now TWA has introduced its "Business Lounger," the airline's answer to one of the worst problems in the sky: flying fanny fatigue...
...move is the latest in a series of Pan Am retrenchments. The company sold its Manhattan headquarters for $400 million in 1980 and its Intercontinental Hotels chain for $500 million the following year. In March, Pan Am sold its food- preparation unit...
...some Pan Am workers bitter. While the agreement calls for United to hire about 2,700 Pan Am employees, officials of the Flight Attendants Union fear that Pan Am members could lose up to 2,000 jobs. Partly as a result, the outcome of a vote on a new contract for Pan Am's 6,000 flight attendants is now uncertain...
...Richard Ferris. "For years we've been an applicant in all Pacific route cases, with only one recent success." That was a new service linking Seattle to Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong, which United began in 1983 after a five-year wait for foreign agreement. The takeover of the Pan Am routes, while subject to review abroad, should encounter no such delays...
United will need approval from the Transportation Department and President Reagan before it can fly Pan Am's routes. That regulatory process could take up to eight months. And while their opinion will not count in the final decision, saddened aviation buffs will undoubtedly decry the loss of the Clipper routes that Pan Am possessed...