Word: dc
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...mused about his remarkable week, Ronald Reagan was riding in an Air Force DC-9 on his way back to California. Quite clearly, he was honestly surprised by the welcome he had received in the city that, in effect, he had campaigned against, decrying the nation's capital as the symbol of the Big Government dragon that he was so determined to slay. But when the President-elect flew in last week, Washington warmed to him as though he were a native son, mainly because he came not as a conquering hero but as a man with natural poise...
...landing rights at Washington's National Airport, Muse decided to fly his carrier into Tulsa, St. Louis and other less congested Midwestern and Southern cities. Says he: "Our target is where big airlines have cut back, the heartland of Middle America." The new airline will fly fuel-efficient DC-9 Super 80s, and Muse says that he will slash prices by up to 66%. Fares will be low enough to "get people off the interstate highways and onto airplanes." And what about stewardess outfits? A slight smirk ripples through Muse's white mustache as he says: "They...
...Boeing, the largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, has weighed in with statistics showing that two-member crews on planes like its own 737 or McDonnell Douglas' DC-9 have better safety records than the standard three-person complement flying most other planes. One reason, says Boeing: the extraneous third person can sometimes distract the other two at critical moments...
Angered by the Federal Aviation Administration's approval of a two-person crew for one new craft, the 155-passenger DC-9 Super 80, A.L.P.A. pilots last week picketed the White House to show their frustration with the agency and its handling of the cockpit-manning question. Left to its own devices, the FAA would almost certainly give the green light to two-member crews for the forthcoming Boeing 767 and 757 airliners, which will each seat about 200 passengers. But for now, longer-range jumbo jets like the 747 or the DC-10, which accommodate...
...vacation season would get Icelandair aloft again. But the tourists did not return. The company also attempted a merger with Lux-air, Luxembourg's airline. That also failed to take off. Now Icelandair is negotiating to sell its elderly Boeing 727s to Yugoslavia, and it has leased its DC-10 to Air Florida. Like the flower children it once served, Icelandair is left mostly with memories...