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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15ALL BUSINESS, NO CLASS
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- 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.''
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