Word: sked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Routes, Few Flights. Trans Caribbean pioneered low-fare service between New York and San Juan; in 1958 it became the first and only U.S. airline to make the jump from non-sked to scheduled carrier. But in recent years it has lost so much traffic to Pan American and Eastern that it has been able to fill only 7.1% of its first-class seats and 58.5% of those in the coach section. Since 1968, Trans Caribbean has picked up new routes to the Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Netherlands Antilles. It has been unable to exploit these routes fully...