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- <text id=91TT2788>
- <title>
- Dec. 16, 1991: Business Notes:Airlines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 16, 1991 The Smile of Freedom
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 60
- Business Notes
- AIRLINES
- Grounded for Good
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- <p>"We are very sorry to advise you Pan American Airways has
- suspended operation. All flights are canceled..."
- </p>
- <p> In the end, it was as straightforward as that--a
- recorded message greeting passengers when they called the Pan
- American World Airways reservation desk last Wednesday. After
- 64 years, the aviation pioneer was grounded for good. The
- airline's five unions had just agreed to $43 million in
- concessions, but that was not enough. Pan Am was counting on
- Delta Airlines for an additional $25 million. But Delta, which
- had come up with $115 million to keep Pan Am flying in recent
- weeks in exchange for 45% of the company, refused to pay any
- more. Desperate, Pan Am's lawyers and bankers scrambled
- fruitlessly for fresh cash, reportedly begging TWA chairman Carl
- Icahn for a relatively paltry $15 million in a late-night call.
- Fat chance: TWA has said it will seek bankruptcy protection
- early next year.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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