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...three nights. Before the sponsor agreed to move "Campbell Playhouse" from New York to Los Angeles, where Welles was preparing his first Hollywood film, he pulled a weekly transcontinental commute - logging, according to one account, an amazing 311,245 air miles and earning a frequent flyer award as TWA?s best customer...
...Pickard is considered more approachable than the remote Freeh. "I never met anybody who was afraid of Tom," says former Assistant Director Lou Schiliro, who worked closely with Pickard when both were senior managers in the New York field office dealing with the TWA 800 tragedy. "He's a kind man, a very genuine person...
...That ruling means the big airlines have new license to throw their weight around, and the bigger the airline, the heavier the weight. United, which is now the second-largest carrier (American's purchase of TWA made it top dog), could make whatever concessions the DOJ demands to make the merger fly, and then - considering the safety net of the judge's ruling for American - swoop back in after the deal closes and drive smaller rivals out with the kind of pricing hardball American has now officially gotten away with...
...That's bad news for the brass at the major airlines, many of which face the looming threat of strikes as the busy summer travel season draws near. American, Delta, TWA and Northwest are all embroiled in serious labor disputes, and, as Gritta points out, a study like this one will only add fuel to labor's fire. "I suspect these new numbers will really bring the situation home to management: We've got Congress pushing controls and we've got the public ticked off. If we push the unions, things could blow up," Gritta says...
...that's for another day. Monday was a happy day for an industry that hasn't had too many lately. TWA ticketholders find themselves with a solvent airline, the St. Louis hub will live on, and Northwest is flying its full schedule now that its mechanics remain...