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- <text id=89TT2209>
- <title>
- Aug. 28, 1989: Business Notes:Airlines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 28, 1989 World War II:50th Anniversary
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- AIRLINES
- Return of the Cheap Seats
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- <p> When Continental Airlines set off a round of deep discounts
- on Aug. 1, rival carriers hoped the price cutting would end by
- autumn. But last week Trans World Airlines launched the fiercest
- fare war in more than two years by slashing its lowest rates on
- round-trip fall tickets. A typical reduction would cut the
- cheapest Chicago-San Francisco fare from $323 to $198. The
- heavily restricted discounts apply to tickets purchased by Sept.
- 1 for U.S. flights from Sept. 9 to Dec. 15. Other airlines
- quickly matched the cut-rate fares. Eastern, struggling to
- return to the air despite a long strike by machinists, said it
- would offer discounts with fewer restrictions beginning Sept.
- 7.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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