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Clearing the runway for these airlines was the industry deregulation in the late '70s. By giving all carriers more freedom in setting their routes and rates, deregulation made it possible and profitable for upstart outfits to search for gaps in the service provided by major trunk lines. Since 1978, at least 16 jet-flying passenger airlines have been launched, in contrast with none in the previous 20 years...
...upstart airlines are succeeding by finding markets either overlooked or ignored by the big trunk carriers. One such newcomer is Hawaiian Pacific, a new Los Angeles-based airline that has begun advertising nonstop service to Honolulu. Founded by a former TV game-show producer, Hawaiian Pacific plans to serve 15 mainland cities as far east as New York City, where nonstop flights to Hawaii have mostly been unavailable. Still awaiting the resolution of questions about its financing and Civil Aeronautics Board certification, the new airline hopes to begin service on Feb. 15 with five leased 747s. After only two weeks...
...townies watched us move in, goof off for a few years, raise hell in their neighborhood, and then blow out of town in Dad's car with a B.A. stashed in the trunk. Snots, they called us. In my four years at Tufts. I did not break down these barriers. Relations with the neighbors were bad, except for when either of us got drunk, and then they were very...
...weakness. That is the conclusion many airline executives have reached after five years of bitter fare wars. Largely as a result of airline deregulation, which started in 1978, a two-tiered industry has come into existence. On the one hand are the old, giant, heavily unionized trunk carriers with high, fixed labor costs. Examples: Continental, Eastern and TWA. On the other hand are the new, small, nonunionized carriers. Examples: People Express, Muse Air and New York...
Among the most popular systems are the so-called conference trees. Rather than storing messages in the order they were written, tree systems are organized by subject matter. This encourages topic-oriented discussions on anything from college tuitions to Middle East policy. Users start at the "trunk," a list of subjects for debate (NEIGHBORHOOD-POWER, NUCLEAR-ARMS), and climb "branches" of subsidiary messages (GIVE-PEACE-A-CHANCE, NUKE-EM-ALL). As subsequent callers add their own opinions, the trees can grow into dense thickets of give and take. In Santa Cruz, Calif., a conference called START-A-RELIGION began with...