Word: usair
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...USAir didn't think the personal hygiene of Randi Freeman and her husband Amir Omrani was up to snuff after they boarded a flight from Seattle to Pittsburgh last month. Airline personnel asked the couple to disembark, and a gate supervisor informed them that both the crew and assorted passengers had complained about their offensive body odor. Freeman and Omrani, an Iranian national, were given toiletries and sent to the washroom as the plane left without them...
Government rules allow airlines the right to refuse transport to passengers whom they deemed to be "offensive." The allegedly malodorous pair were placed on a later flight, but Freeman is crying foul. She claims that USAir simply wanted to clear two seats on an overbooked plane, and has demanded an apology from the company's president plus the cost of two first-class tickets from New York to Los Angeles for the embarrassing episode. Says she: "On the next flight, I asked a woman if we smelled, and she said...
...some airlines have too large a share of business at certain airports? The Justice Department showed its concern about that possibility last week, when it opposed Eastern Air Lines' proposed $75 million sale of eight gates at the Philadelphia airport to USAir. Reason: USAir would control 23 of the airport's 49 gates. Consumer activists contend that such dominance gives a carrier an unfair ability to boost fares...
...California outraged consumers revolted in recent months as fares on the 330-mile air corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles reached $148 one way (or 45 cents a mile, as compared with 24 cents a mile on the New York-San Francisco route). In response, American, United and USAir last week temporarily rolled back fares on the route...
...improve its precarious cash position, Eastern on the eve of bankruptcy agreed to sell eight boarding gates at the Philadelphia airport to USAir for $70 million. It picked up $15 million more by agreeing to sell its Philadelphia-Toronto and Philadelphia-Montreal routes to USAir. In addition, Eastern leased landing slots on its New York-Miami routes to Continental. Accusations flew that Lorenzo was dismantling the airline even during the strike. Responded Lorenzo angrily: "Had we sold assets quicker, Eastern wouldn't be in bankruptcy today." Along with the shuttle sale to Trump, the deals with USAir will have...