Word: twa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strange wave of "sickness" among pilots that has forced Eastern Air Lines to cancel 90% of its nights was spreading to other lines last week. At a meeting in a motel across from New York's Idlewild International Airport, Eastern Air Lines pilots asked Pan American and TWA pilots to develop sympathetic symptoms that would keep them from flying planes too. By week's end, Pan American was forced to cancel flights as more than 102 pilots called in to say they were ill,. When Pan American flight supervisors telephoned reserve crews, they got a standard answer: "Sorry...
When Eastern Air Lines pilots obeyed the union order, Eastern went into a federal court and won a temporary restraining order. The pilots got around it by staying away from work on the grounds of "sickness." TWA, American Airlines and Pan American got a restraining order from a federal district court in Chicago, requiring pilots to comply with the FAA order. But the pilots were not happy. Growled one captain to an FAA inspector: "I don't want you here at all, but we're under a court order, so sit down...
...maintains that its inspectors must use this seat in order to observe the crew properly. But for A.L.P.A. this seat has a special significance. Last year after bitter wrangling with the airlines, A.L.P.A. got the right to have a third pilot sit in this seat on American, TWA, Eastern and Pan American jet planes; it was the union's way of ensuring that jobs for pilots do not decrease too drastically as the swifter, larger jets cut down the number of individual flights. A.L.P.A. does not want to see the third pilot replaced even temporarily by an inspector...
...sections of six jetliners at one time. Pan Am's is the fourth individual terminal to be opened at Idlewild. American, United and Eastern are already in operation. By 1962 the North-west-Braniff-Northeast building will be up. So will Eero Saarinen's spectacular gull-like TWA terminal. Altogether, U.S. and foreign airlines-which once scorned Idlewild as too far from Manhattan-are now putting $150 million into the Terminal City building program, giving Idlewild a World's Fair look...
Masterminding the marriage of TWA and Northeast is Millionaire Howard Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA and 9.2% of Atlas Corp., the holding company that has a 56% controlling interest in Northeast. Under the merger terms, one share of TWA would be exchanged for three shares of Northeast common stock, if the plan meets the approval of TWA's board, the CAB, stockholders and major creditors. Hughes will also lend $9,500,000 to Northeast from his Hughes Tool Co. to get its six, new, leased Convair 880 jets into operation for the Florida tourist season this winter...