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Most men have it: the fantasy of one day sitting behind the wheel of an expensive sports car or climbing into the cockpit of a jet. Many outgrow the urge, but Kevin Stamper went out and bought a brand-new Boeing 737 and then, for the fun of it, launched Pro Air, his very own little airline...
...year-old Pro Air has been there waiting to gobble up another dissatisfied customer. This year Pro Air, which now has four 737s, could quadruple its revenue passenger-miles, the industry's standard volume measure, to 600 million miles, from 150 million in 1998. On a recent morning, Stamper gushed like a new father as he watched dozens of passengers milling about Pro Air's hub, the motley but closer-to-downtown Detroit City Airport...
With only a pair of brand-new Boeing 737s sporting brightly colored orange-and-green tail fins, Pro Air Inc. is America's newest passenger airline. Launched in Detroit's City Airport last July by former Boeing lawyer Kevin Stamper, Pro Air offers fares as much as 85% less than giant Northwest Airlines' on comparable routes. Passengers flocked to Pro Air, but Northwest, which dominates traffic in Detroit, was not about to let Pro Air grab share. Northwest quickly cut prices and added seats to Pro Air destinations, including Baltimore, Md.; Newark, N.J.; and Indianapolis, Ind. Under this assault...
...Center for Prevention Research at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, is that, as Clayton says, "D.A.R.E. did not have any sustained effect on anything." A rating of D.A.R.E. by Drug Strategies, a respected Washington research group, arrived at the same conclusion, as has police chief Norm Stamper of Seattle, which may drop the program. For all its popularity, says Stamper, D.A.R.E. "does not make much of a dent in drug use when the kids get older...
...Valdez accident prompted the oil industry to announce last week the creation of a $250 million plan to prevent and clean up future spills. In the wake of Washington's defense-procurement scandals, Boeing beefed up its ethics committee. "It's a no-nonsense program," says committee head Malcolm Stamper, an aerospace veteran. "There's no winking. If we find out that a program official is obtaining marketing information improperly...