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Rising Gloom. With 60% of the nation's commercial air transport grounded, problems of all kinds continued to grow. In California, servicemen returning from Viet Nam on combat leave found themselves stranded for up to 72 hours at Travis Air Force Base. As many as 100 at a time...
The impasse left the U.S. with only one major transcontinental airline, American,* still in operation and a flock of regional carriers to cope with the air traffic (60% of all U.S. passengers, 73% of all cargo, 70% of all mail) usually carried by the grounded five.
The strike took an ever-rising toll. Business losses mounted at a daily rate of close to $20 million. The airlines were losing more than $7,000,000 in revenue every day. In all, some 3,100,000 would-be passengers were delayed or grounded. By last week, such congressional...
It has proved far too sophisticated a plane for West Germany's fledgling 100,000-man air force. The new Luftwaffe pilots were either overage World War II veterans with almost no jet experience or untried youngsters. A greater problem was maintenance personnel. More than one-third were draftees...
The strike by 35,400 members of the International Association of Machinists grounded carriers that fly 61½% of all U.S. airline passenger-miles, carry 70% of the nation's air mail, 73% of its air freight. At the behest of the Civil Aeronautics Board, six other trunk carriers...