Word: pans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very model of a hardworking, leisure-loving Los Angeles suburbanite. A U.C.L.A.-trained radar engineer, Bell, 61, had put in 29 years with Hughes Aircraft Co., a major defense contractor once owned by the late Howard Hughes. Together with his pretty second wife Rita, a Belgian-born Pan American airlines cabin attendant, and her nine-year-old son from an earlier marriage, Bell lived in a fairly ordinary-looking condominium complex in Playa del Rey. It had the usual Southern California accouterments-tennis courts, pools, saunas and Jacuzzis. One of his neighbors there was Polish-born Marian Zacharski...
...longer the invincible titans of air transport, major trunk carriers like Pan American, United, Braniff and TWA are now fighting off brutal competition from hosts of new airlines, some with only a few planes and a quick-thinking team of marketing men. Their business strategy: a sort of fast-food style of jam-'em-in, fly-'em-off air service. The upstarts have been spawned in large part by the airline deregulation drive that began during Gerald Ford's presidency and is likely to be accelerated by the Reagan Administration...
...saddest story of all is Pan American's. Once the undisputed world leader of commercial aviation, Pan Am filled the skies with its elegant Clipper ships and, later, Boeing 747 jets. Yet in April, when Juan T. Trippe, one of the last of U.S. aviation's founding patriarchs, died at 81, the airline he established and built was barely scraping by, subsisting in part on $294.4 million from the sale of its Manhattan office building...
This summer's sky wars have created some astonishing anomalies in airfares. On most airlines, flying between Los Angeles and Phoenix costs $43 each way. But Pan American, which just started service between the two cities, will throw in a return trip for a penny. A typical coach ticket between Chicago and Seattle goes for $329. But Republic, which is trying to boost traffic, has lowered the cost to $189 on flights that make a 90-minute stop in Minneapolis...
...region is also inaccessible to the press: few journalists are willing to risk their lives by crossing the military's road blockades. Harassment of reporters is so great that the Pan American Center called upon the El Salvadorean government to "end the persecution of foreign and local journalists and to secure the right to report...