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After a flaming gear box on a Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) train caused the evacuation of Kendall Square station yesterday afternoon, an estimated 5000 passengers experienced subway delays of more than an hour...
...rules may help deter some of the 30,000 so-called economic refugees who are expected to step into the transit lounges at West German airports this year and request asylum. But the measures will not directly block those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...
...accompanied the blessings of airline deregulation. Bargain fares and upstart airlines have increased bookings from 319 million passengers two years ago to an expected 410 million this year. What was long an elitist and expensive but comfortable means of transportation has been transformed into a democratic, cut-rate mass-transit system that is straining to serve the hordes of new passengers...
...while in New York City, there was no house to call home. "I had no money and needed a place to sleep, so I'd ride the Third Avenue bus up to the Bronx, cross the street and ride back down to the Battery. Thanks to the transit authority, I was warm and toasty if I took a backseat, and I felt cloaked and protected by all the people...
...reservation systems linking them with at least 20,000 U.S. travel agents. The systems allowed the airlines to launch myriad discounts, usually on advance purchases with high (as much as 50%) penalties for failure to show up for the seat. For its part, People operated more like a mass-transit company. It offered two cheap daily fares--peak and off-peak--to most destinations, sold few tickets in advance and frequently overbooked its seats. Later this summer People will finally insert its flight schedule into the sophisticated computer networks managed by American and United...