Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor accounts for one of the industry's fastest-growing expenses, as evidenced by the salary increases of roughly 20% that airline pilots have recently been winning. Air-traffic delays, brought on in large measure by the proliferation of scheduled flights, have cost the airlines some $90 million so far this year. But new aircraft purchases are far and away the most expensive item. Under contract, U.S. airlines will take delivery of 451 new jet planes this year, at a cost of $2.6 billion. In all, they have commitments or options to buy $7.6 billion worth of jets...
Shakedown Ahead. On the revenue side, the airlines have clearly been misled by overoptimistic passenger projections. Carriers flying between New York and Los Angeles have added enough new seats this year to accommodate an anticipated 15% growth of traffic, but the number of passengers has increased by only 7%. Last year American Airlines scheduled 103 weekly flights from New York to Los Angeles, operated them at 70% of capacity. This year, after adding 43 flights to the route, American has seen that occupancy figure drop...
...York. Cracked Carson: "She wasn't even pregnant when she got on." Flying through the Washington-Chicago-New York area known as the Golden Triangle has not yet reached that extreme. Still, delays have become so bad that the Federal Aviation Administration last week proposed limits on traffic at major airports in the triangle to make air travel more manageable. The rules are meant to cut down on air and ground holds, which this summer have caused thousands of passengers to arrive at destinations hours late...
Some 3,000 Arabs work in the Jewish area of the city. By paying Israeli income tax, the Arabs of Jerusalem now enjoy the benefits of Israel's advanced social welfare system. There is a brisk traffic of Jews and Arabs, for business and pleasure, between the two sectors of the formerly divided city. On Friday nights young Jews can, for example, escape from the rigors of the Sabbath into three discotheques in the Arab section. Most important, until last week there had been no major incidents of violence among the two populations of Jerusalem...
Enervated Limbo. Armah's anonymous antihero, referred to as "the man," works in a dim, suffocating traffic-control center, where he tracks the erratic routing of decrepit trains he never sees. The scene suits his mental state, for he lives in the cheerless, enervated limbo of post-revolution letdown. He has learned the dispiriting lesson that freedom from colonialism does not mean freedom from exploitation-particularly when the new masters are black liberals less interested in tipping the revolution than in driving their recently acquired Mercedes. He has learned that the lusts for both blood and money know...