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Meanwhile, the telemarketers' sales pitches, once based mostly on price, have dived deep into the fine print. Says Dwight Paul, 62, a retired airline pilot: "They seem to play on our inability to understand all these ifs, ands or buts. It's like the old snake-oil salesmen who used to come to town...
What's alarming about Bishop's rogue flight is how easily it began: his instructor gave him keys to inspect the Cessna, and the unlicensed pilot took off from St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport while the teacher wasn't looking. Robert Cooper, who owns the National Aviation Flight School, where Bishop took lessons, defends the school's role, saying, "This is not an issue of security. It's an issue of trust...
...didn't "want any special treatment" when Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta called to express his sympathy. Some other victims of newly vigilant airport-security personnel are getting much worse handling. The airlines' own uniformed flight crews are often searched several times in a single day, and the pilots are getting so fed up that they have begun talking openly of striking or staging a work slowdown like the one that helped make the summer of 2000 the most delayed in history. Stephen Luckey, head of the Air Line Pilots Association's national security committee, says he gets dozens...
...democratic insouciance. Franta tells his tale in flashbacks: during the war his girlfriend in Czechoslovakia (Linda Rybova) and a lovely Englishwoman (the heartbreaking Tara Fitzgerald) left him--the first because she thought him dead, the second because her husband returned from naval service grievously wounded; his best friend, a pilot (Krystof Hadek) he mentored, died saving Franta's life; even his dog acquired a new mistress...
...know we've reached some kind of watershed in the stressful post-Sept. 11 world of airline security when the public has to decide who's telling the truth, the pilot or the Secret Service agent. That's what happened in the case of a member of President Bush's security detail who was thrown off an American Airlines plane on Christmas Day because of alleged problems with paperwork permitting him to carry a handgun. The pilot says the agent, identified in news reports as Walied Schater, got belligerent. Schater, through lawyers, says he was discriminated against because...