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- <text id=90TT1096>
- <title>
- Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Airlines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- AIRLINES
- This Is Your Pilot Speaking
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- <body>
- <p> When Frank Lorenzo flew Eastern Airlines into bankruptcy
- court last year, he vowed to bring the carrier out stronger
- than ever. But strikebound Eastern has lost $1.2 billion since
- then, and Lorenzo has proved unable to reach an agreement with
- Eastern's creditors. To break the deadlock, a U.S. bankruptcy
- judge in Manhattan last week named airline-industry veteran
- Martin Shugrue to serve as trustee for the troubled Eastern.
- While Lorenzo's Texas Air company will continue to own Eastern,
- Lorenzo will have no say in the airline's management during the
- bankruptcy proceedings. Shugrue, 49, who will run the airline
- and explore the possibility of selling it, knows Lorenzo well.
- The airline tycoon last year forced Shugrue to resign from his
- post as president of Continental Airlines, the other wing of
- the Texas Air holding company. Members of the International
- Association of Machinists, who had been staunch enemies of
- Lorenzo, said they would seek immediate talks to end their
- 13-month walkout.
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- </body>
- </article>
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