Word: swissair
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...proliferated to the point that there are almost as many as there are countries in the U.N. At least one airline is sensibly going against the trend. Tiny Austrian Airlines, which is distinguished by excellent service and frequent deficits, is seeking a shelter under the broad wings of Swissair...
...state-owned, has been a losing investment during most of its 13 years of existence and has dropped a total of $40 million. It provides a daily service to New York by leasing half of the cabin of an aircraft flown by Belgium's Sabena. By contrast, Swissair is 70% privately owned, flies to 56 countries and has not lost money since 1949. Last year it earned...
Qantas and Russia's Aeroflot access to Vienna. Besides, Swissair might also acquire Austrian Airlines' debts...
...them to different hiding places. Before the fighting broke out, most were believed to be in a sprawling Palestinian refugee center on the southern rim of the capital, called Amman New Camp. At the same camp the guerrillas are believed to be holding $650,000 in U.S. bills that Swissair last week admitted had been aboard its skyjacked plane. When the guerrillas found out about the money by reading the craft's loading sheet, they marched the plane's captain into the desert, held guns to his temples and forced him to tell them where...
...were being held prisoners in the desert, stunned governments started the long job of getting them home. Early Monday, Switzerland made the first diplomatic move by offering to free the three Arab hijack convicts it was holding in return for the release of the passengers and crew of the Swissair jet. But the offer was hastily withdrawn later the same day after it was privately criticized by Secretary of State William Rogers. At a Labor Day meeting with representatives of Switzerland, West Germany, Israel and Britain, Rogers stressed that one-plane deals with the terrorists would only encourage them...