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They started seven years ago as a clever promotion, a harmless gimmick designed to boost business for airlines. But now frequent-flyer programs have triggered a dangerous dogfight in a vulnerable industry. As the major carriers scramble to offer the best giveaway plans, almost everyone who flies frequently for business or pleasure is busy trying to calculate how many miles of travel it will take to earn a free trip across the country or even around the world...
...frenzy intensified in January, when the airlines began to offer "triple mileage" -- three miles' credit for every mile flown. Suddenly flyers could look forward to earning that dream vacation to Hawaii in one-third the time. Forced to match one another to stay competitive, the airlines fret that the frequent-flyer programs have spun out of control. The number of passengers participating has surged from 4 million in 1983 to 8 million now. They hold nearly 30 million memberships in frequent-flyer plans, since many passengers sign with more than one airline...
...basic frequent-flyer programs are similar at most major airlines. Typically, after compiling as few as 10,000 miles, passengers can upgrade the next coach ticket they buy to first class. For 35,000 miles, they can usually earn a free round-trip coach ticket to anywhere in North America. After 50,000 miles, it's off to Hawaii or even Europe...
David Peabody of Local 40 yesterday criticized Felsway for hiring workers from outside this area. They bring in people from New Hampshire, and God knows where," Peabody said.. The flyer, which Peabody wrote, argued that the purchasing power of a community falls when wages drop below union scale...
Coming straight from the Super Bowl, U.S. reporters have their most penetrating questions ready (How tall do you have to be to qualify for the giant slalom?), having just reminded themselves that luge is the French word for Flexible Flyer. At Sarajevo four years ago, intent on seeing those marvelous birdmen sail off their 90-meter sliding boards, two sportswriters hopped an unattended ski lift. Halfway up the foggy mountain, the one from Atlanta asked the handsomer one from New York, "Is this more dangerous than you thought?" The chair seemed to tilt away, leaving them hugging the frame...