Word: stapleton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counted 18 dead outside the plane, and there are several dead in the fuselage," said Stapleton International Airport spokesman Richard Boulware. Twenty-one people walked away from the crash, officials said...
Travelers who plan to pass through Denver's Stapleton Airport any time soon should be prepared for an unusual encounter with ticket agents who come on like ambitious Dale Carnegie graduates. At Stapleton, where United and Continental are locked in one of the fiercest airline battles in the U.S., United is engaged in an all-out campaign to win friends and influence people to switch over from its rival's flights. In one United tactic, eager agents sidle up to unwary travelers as they pass through the terminal and lure them onto United flights with such promised incentives as earlier...
...given a choice between prison and publishing written apologies, accompanied by their photographs, in local newspapers. Roger Smith, 29, paid $294.12 to announce his contrition in two papers after a guilty plea growing out of a theft charge. A published apology "takes the anonymity out of crime," insists Ulys Stapleton, Lincoln County district attorney. "People can't blend back into the woodwork...
...still near the peak of the summer travel season, but an eerie silence reigned last week in Concourse D at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. Nearby, the entire 42-aircraft passenger fleet of Frontier Airlines sat grounded. In the terminal building, there were occasional scenes of chaos as anxious Frontier passengers, left stranded by a sudden shutdown, scrambled to find other airlines that would accept their tickets. As the paralysis wore on, groups of Frontier's 4,700 employees huddled in airport corridors and union halls to glean the slightest rumor of their fate...
...fleet at substantially lower wage levels, at least for a time, the People Express deal would be off. Despite much negotiation, the United pilots, who made substantial wage concessions only last year, continued to balk. United, which had already claimed some of Frontier's valuable gates and hangars at Stapleton in exchange for its down payment, decided to get tough. It announced that it would not buy the balance of Frontier because the grounded airline had been damaged beyond repair. Said United on Wednesday: "The airline we attempted to purchase does not exist anymore...