Word: twa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest international ruckus of the jet age last week found the U.S. standing almost alone against nearly a score of foreign airlines. The dispute centered on fares on the heavily traveled North Atlantic run, where Pan American and TWA are engaged in hot competition with no fewer than 16 foreign airlines. The foreign airlines-most of them prestigiously losing money for the governments that run them-want to make changes that will, in effect, raise fares on the North Atlantic run 5%. The U.S. is holding out against the fare hike-and would, in fact, like to see fares...
...down the fare hike. Last year 2,300,000 passengers flew across the Atlantic-but, on the average, the big jets were only 45% full. Mostly mired in huge deficits, the European airlines see higher fares as the most expedient way out of their financial difficulties. Pan Am and TWA have been making good profits on the North Atlantic run, though steadily losing a bigger share of the market to foreign carriers. They argue that lower fares are needed to attract more passengers to Europe and help to fill up empty seats...
...Transport Workers Union is now negotiating for them with American. American argues that it guarantees ground jobs that pay as well as flying ones to stewardesses after they are grounded-but, then, no one really expects them to stay around that long. Age limits are also in effect at TWA and Delta (both 35), but marriage nearly always solves the problem. American itself has an annual 40% stewardess turnover rate, and only eight to ten stewardesses a year out of American's 1,500 reach 32 without a wedding ring...
Pacesetter of the "soaring" design was the late great Eero Saarinen's TWA building at New York's Idlewild. Washington also went soaring with Saarinen in its new Dulles International Airport. Latest to soar is the most air-served city for its size in the U.S. No fewer than seven air lines have been pumping people in and out of Las Vegas through one of the shabbiest airports in the land. But last week's crop of gamblers, conventioneers, vacationers and divorcers found themselves arriving and departing through a $4,500,000 air, terminal that looked...
...time the U.S. has a supersonic transport ready, the Anglo-French consortium may already have captured a readymade customer: a planned Air Union of the Common Market's five airlines that envisages using standard equipment. Since such big U.S. international flag carriers as Pan American and TWA could hardly let their foreign competitors corner deliveries of the Anglo-French plane, U.S. airlines might find themselves having to order their supersonics from abroad...