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TheFugitive CALENDAR 8 Volume3, Number32, August 11, 1993 FREE DEREK FERRAR ello, this is your captain speaking. Your airline industryflight todayis projectedto be a bumpy one. A high-level recessionover thecoun tryhas created severeturbulence, which, along with mechanical failure of our complex on-board hub-and. spoke routing systems, fare-war terrorism, managerial human error and a host of other problems, may cause us to drop billions of dol lars without notice, so remember to tighten your belt. We are now awaiting recoveryclear ance fromthe state and federal control towers, where the industry s flightplan has been under debate. Our in-flightmovie today, providedwe are still solvent at takeoff, is Airplane 3: The Capacity Crisis. Our meal service will include healthy portions of crow with a side of bitter pill. Enjoy the ride; over and out. Ready to reach forthe barf bag conveniently located in the seat pocket in frontof you? You're not alone. Among the most tumultuous economicissues of the day, both locally and nationally, is the plight of the struggling airline industry. Continued on Page 3 Letters Recycled shoes?... Get real, Tony. No Godzilla clogs forme. Radio Rebuttal illl This is in responseto y�:mr storyon KCCN How about an open mind, FM-100 ("Local Air," HW 8/4). First, thank you foryour complimentsto KCCN Sister? Chic, classy khaki, forits "profoundeffect on the local music black, natural - hi-top, low industry." That has been our plan and top Eco Sneaks, slip-ons. Do I purpose fromthe beginning! Secondly, this is to refutethe untrueand sound like an ad or what? unjustified comments by Jacqueline (Skylark) Lindsey: "Chic?" Tony.. goes chic?? 1. It was I - not Skylark - who championed a separate fonnat forthe new (Opening box) Wow, these are FM. That's why she was hired. Otherwise, a great present. Forgive me, we would have simply simulcasted. oh generous one. 2. The suggestion that there was some kind of confrontation between Skylark illl and me over management style and CEJnyou believe shoes from compensation is completely untrue. She was our second-highest paid employee. tires, soda bottles, milkjugs It is conunon forex-employees to make and polystyrenecups? such claims, however, as if to justifytheir bad judgment in leaving their job. 3. For anyone to suggest that I don't care Chic, too,.. Babes. about my employees simplyis unjustified. And no one expects their employees to work 14 hours a day. That's ludicrous. Our people do work hard, and so do I. 1ANY DRINK1 My management style may not have pleased Skylark, but it works forKCCN. 1f RE E1 Frankly, people who do not like to work are not comfortable in our ohana. I with the purchase I 4. The reason for such unjustified of another drink of statements might be only jealousy. Who I equal or greater value. I knows? Name: B.J. 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Quorum 1200 College Walk, Suite 212 ,_ 834-0489 Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 537-4041 SecuringUte Telephone: 808 528-1475 2 • August 11, 1993 • Honolulu Weekly ....... -.--.. -·;_ gies that worked during the spending spree of the '80s but came due when News the recession hit forthe industry's ,4c,,:; ti9 3 • ---;- Since 1979 Jfow 7Joes worst problems today. <:> Since deregulation,the airlineshave fineorigtizaf Yaur9arden become addicted to schemes that �� undercut each others' prices, fre U, wearing apparel 9row.? quently driving themselves into the dec1igneJfro m red in the process. (Locally, the vis � Ptiztage.iilk kimonoc1, itor industry has blamed such fare wars -which often do not include U,., ., obi, d other �a,�;/\ ticketsto the Islands -fora portion M"i? � "1\ llfll/Jlle of tourism's slump.) While reregula :r. w ' tion- advocatedon the nationallevel , fabric.J... as a jobs-protectionmeasure by trade quality unions -would end such practices (costing consumers more in the process), it doesn't seem necessary (f))@�Zt:�· to end airlines' losses. Theonly major flau: carrierto be profitablein recentyears, . � Southwest, has average fares that are fourtimes lower than those of United. 11-48 l,Colw Head 1\\·cnue According to analysts, Southwest has 7.,-i-3-iS7 made money by keeping costs low in the areas of labor (Southwest's • • pilots forexample, earn about $10,000 less a year thatthose with other major Waler 9ardens airlines but work 30 percent more • hours), frillsand routing. While the 9arden2300£.s 9aal airlines arequick to blame unionized • labor costs (which, undeniably, are SMALLads can have very Obin .<Jfoues 9arden 1r 1ne huge) and to threatenunions with lay • offsif they don't accept hardballcon <Joofs :.Rosemar cessions, some criticssay such tactics • y only blame the unions forthe mis <Jopiaries 23ashels deedsof WallStreet wolves like Frank • • Lorenzo. Management "raped and 7erra Galla !Jbls • ur u ence pillaged these airlines, and now it's all labor's fault?" Ted Harris, chair 7/romalberap_y On boththe local and man of the Virginia-based Airline From Page 1 nationallevels, the Industry Resources Inc., told the DetroitNews. "Preposterous." ationwide, airlines have lost aviationindustry has at least $10 billion over the Among management tactics now CYPRESSJnanoa last three years, $1 billion beenin severe causing problems is a massive air craft-buying spree by the major air 2733 East Manoo lmd in the first quarter of 1993 disarray, prompting Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 alone. Three of the nation's lines, which have added 445 aircraft The Honolulu Weekly Advertising 988-5373 boththe federaland to expand their fleetsbetween 25 and 12 largest carriers, includ 528-1185 or 528-1370 Design services available ing Pan Am and Eastern, stat�governments to 43 percent. With the Gulf War and have gone out of business;three more searchfor solutions. the recession, however, business dropped drastically, creating a crisis have spent much of the '90s operat- Can they befound? ing in bankruptcy, a condition with of empty seats. The excess of capac 'I'ij1s ls :N° O TJ\LE · T� �OO?rS which Northwest has lately had sev ity has resulted in all the major air lines but Southwest losing between eral near-collisions. The industry's at state and nationallevels, is not only Boot Si:JOP ls ijAVW"G J\SJ\LE! .02 cents and 4.98 cents for every Big Three -American, United and unlikely to do much good but could mile a passenger actually flies. Delta -have sufferedbig losses and possibly do considerable harm by :N" o C:i:JOte . Ir's :N"o SDKe! Another huge problemhas beenthe laid offthousands of workers.It's esti avoiding thefact that the airlines them cumbersome hub-and-spoke system mated that the industry as whole, selves are the only ones who can get 15% Orr D&.Seuss Boots the airlines adopted to eliminate their industry in order. And without a doubt, reregulation will result in unprofitableroutes. (Interestingly, 10% Orr Ori:ie.& KIDs' BOOKs · D E RE K FERRAR Mainland-Hawaiiis considereda noto higher prices, hurting the consumer. riously unprofitableroute. Major air 'nJAI' SUMW:.& including aircraftmanufacturing and Becausethe issue is so much in the qunrC.i:f lines say the only way they make other associated areas, has dropped air, so to speak, your flight crew here money corninghere is that Hawaii is tt£�� &J\DJ1'lG 'I'i:II.&sr .