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...faces in the faded photographs of the immigrants on Ellis Island are sad too. "I never managed during the years I worked there to become callous to the mental anguish, the disappointment and the despair I witnessed almost daily," said a young interpreter named Fiorello La Guardia. "At best the work was an ordeal...
...weddings or graduations were idled, and airports around the U.S. were in chaos. "It's a zoo out here," said a policeman at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last Friday morning. The Baltimore Orioles baseball team was among those stranded at O'Hare Thursday night. At La Guardia Airport in New York City, United tried to persuade other airlines to honor its passengers' tickets, but that did not always work. American Airlines refused to honor the United ticket held by Larry Scweber of Portland, Me. He wanted to go to Tulsa, but American told him that United...
...with a capability to handle only 23. Jetliners had to wait and wait before taking off, forcing many passengers to miss connections and appointments. Andrew Edson, a Manhattan public relations consultant, recently spent two hours on the ground in an Atlanta-bound jet at New York's La Guardia Airport and finally arrived too late for the meeting that he planned to attend. After one return flight was canceled, he switched to another, only to encounter a second lengthy delay. Says Edson: "I spent eleven hours in a plane, in the air or on the ground and wound...
...Administration last month prodded 100 airlines into an unprecedented agreement to spread out 1,300 rush-hour flights at the six most crowded U.S. airports. These are Chicago-O'Hare, Atlanta's Hartsfield, Denver's Stapleton and the New York City area's Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark. The pact will not take effect until Nov. 1, but it has already come under heavy fire. Critics both in and out of the airline industry charge that the accord will reduce competition and hurt new airlines. Declares Michael Muse, chairman of Muse Air, a Dallas-based discount...
Early on, the talks ran into turbulent weather. A Government proposal to increase the number of flights at Kennedy and La Guardia while reducing traffic at nearby Newark ran into objections from People Express. The cut-rate carrier, which uses Newark for its popular shuttle service to Washington and Boston, angrily protested that any cutback would restrain competition for the benefit of a larger airline. The carrier it meant was Eastern, which runs a rival shuttle operation from La Guardia...