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- <text id=91TT1413>
- <title>
- June 24, 1991: Talk About a Long Haul
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 24, 1991 Thelma & Louise
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 13
- TALK ABOUT A LONG HAUL
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- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Linda Williams
- </p>
- <p> Imagine having to hitch a 3,000-mile ride to your job.
- That is the plight of TWA crew members in Los Angeles who feel
- stranded by Carl Icahn's decision to sell off the airline's
- transcontinental routes. Hundreds of Los Angeles-based crews who
- handle international flights out of New York must sometimes
- leave a full day early to snare a TWA standby seat. Many
- employees contend that the commute leaves them too fatigued to
- do their job, but they see little choice. Why not relocate?
- "Leave California and move to Queens?" asks an incredulous
- senior pilot. "You think I'm crazy?"
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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