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<text id=90TT2652>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: Business Notes:Airlines
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 66
Business Notes
AIRLINES
Flying Along at Treetop Level
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<body>
<p> The airline industry is struggling to maintain altitude
under the twin burdens of a slumping economy and rising fuel
prices. Prognosis: some of the weak carriers may fail. Eastern,
already in bankruptcy, is losing $1.5 million a day, about 50%
more than a few months ago. A prime reason for the accelerating
losses, says Eastern trustee Martin Shugrue, is the rise of
jet-fuel prices. The airline pays 96 cents per gal., up from 56
cents before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Last week Shugrue urged
President Bush to form a task force to find ways to bring oil
prices under control. Another money-losing carrier, Pan Am, is
laying off workers and switching to smaller jets, while trying
to sell its shuttle to Phoenix-based America West.
</p>
<p> Even a top carrier is lumbering. After gobbling up PSA and
Piedmont in 1987 to form the sixth largest U.S. carrier, USAir
is losing market share to competitors. Projecting losses of $350
million for the year, USAir last week suspended its stock
dividend and postponed for one year the purchase of 16 new
Boeing aircraft.
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