Word: twa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soggy saga goes on and on. The TWA dessert that tastes like "mint-colored shaving cream." The "glorified hot water" that passes for coffee on Pan Am. The menus on National, which are rendered in French (even for breakfast), though "no Frenchman would give house-room" to the meal that follows. The canned fruit, the cannonball rolls, the senile salads. Some of the British inspectors' bitterest barbs are aimed at British Airways; pace Robert Morley, its "farcically pretentious Elizabethan menu heralded one of the worst air meals ever eaten." A British Airways official, who might have been speaking...
...Delta 57% Braniff 69% Air Canada 58% Aer Lingus 66% TWA 56% Laker 65% British Cal. 54% N.W. Orient 62% National 52% Pan American 59% Air India 37% Iran Air 58% Brit. Airways...
...about 30% of an airline's operating costs, up from 16% only two years ago. Having earned more than $1 billion in the first nine months of 1978, the industry cleared only $580 million in the same period this year, and all carriers are scrambling to cut costs. TWA has laid off 2,500 employees; and United, which was grounded by a long strike last spring and is now being hurt by passengers cashing in and flying on half-fare coupons, has furloughed 195 pilots and 400 other employees. Braniff has pulled out of 23 of the 40 markets...
...National, Delta and Eastern are all facing new competition on routes in and out of the Sunshine State. Since deregulation, American, Ozark and Republic have all launched runs between Florida and points in the Midwest and other areas, while Braniff has increased its service from Texas and Western states. TWA and United plan to invade Florida this winter...
...afternoon marked the beginning of the end of the Pope's extraordinary week. Little remained but a Sunday Mass ? with crowd estimates at 200,000 ? on the Washington Mall and the final takeoff of Shepherd I, his TWA...