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- <text id=92TT0470>
- <title>
- Mar. 02, 1992: All Business, No Class
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 02, 1992 The Angry Voter
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- ALL BUSINESS, NO CLASS
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> American Airlines is proudly touting its plush new
- coast-to-coast business-class service--complete with
- extra-wide seats, free movies, restaurant-quality food and
- drinks on the house. But watch out when you get there. The
- supercarrier has been getting hammered in the busy California
- corridor by scrappy (and consistently profitable) Southwest
- Airlines. Now American is mulling plans to mimic some of
- Southwest's cattle-car tactics in order to match its low fares:
- open seating, no meals, no baggage transfers. Says an American
- executive: "Value isn't quality; it's getting what you pay
- for."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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