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October 26, 1982
American benefits
Braniff s death felt
Johnson jumps back to avoid being sprayed with
vater by Bruce Moore during the car wash held by
and Mclnnis Halls Sunday to raise money for the
staff photo by David Fisher
United Way. Both juniors, Moore is from San Antonio
and Johnson is from Coleman.
United Press International
DALLAS — American Air
lines increased its passenger
traffic out of the lucrative Dai-
las-Fort Worth market by 19
percent in the months immedi
ately following the bankruptcy
of Braniff International Air
ways, primarily by being the
only carrier ready to take on the
overflow.
However, an American
spokesman points out that the
airline, which was affected most
by the suicidal fare wars Braniff
triggered in its last days, has a
larger share of a market that has
shrunk significantly in the last
five months.
“American’s larger percen
tage share of the Dallas-Fort
Worth emplanements is deceiv
ing and misleading because the
total boardings at the Dallas-
Fort Worth airport have^ de
clined substantially since Braniff
ceased operations,” said Paul
Haney, an American spokes
man. “American has a larger
share of a smaller market.”
Before Braniff went bank
rupt in May, it had about 150
flights daily at the Dallas-Fort
Worth Regional Airport and
controlled 30 percent of the pas
senger traffic.
A financial analyst for the
Dallas-Fort Worth Airport
Board, Bill Miller, said Braniff
had 341,258 passengers in
April. That was 30 percent of
the 1.13 total boardings.
The corresponding figure
for American Airlines was
546,572, or more than 48 per
cent of the total boardings. In
May, it was 578,507. In June, the
figure shot to 683,404, almost a
19 percent jump in two months.
In September, American’s
total dropped to 506,559, but it
was 66 percent of the 764,846
total boardings at Dallas-Fort
Worth.
But analysts say the impress
ive gains by American were not
due primarily to Braniff s death.
They say American already had
increased its capacity and load
factor — the percentage of seats
occupied — and launched an
efficient marketing program
prior to May.
, “However, on May 13 when
Braniff sought Chapter 11 pro
tection, American was the only
airline on the scene with the
equipment and capability to
handle the tremendous influx of
the Braniff traffic,” said Jim
Alderson, director of Dallas-
Fort Worth property and facili
ties.
“That would account for the
huge surge in passenger board
ings on American,” Alderson
said. “You’ll find that Delta did
not increase that dramatically
because it did not have the same
amount of connections and the
same types of route patterns as
American.”
Braniff officials said last week
that the airline may return in a
cooperative venture with the
California-based Pacific South
west Airlines, but many details
must be worked out first.
Airline analyst Nick
Babounakis of Oppenheimer
Co. Inc. in New York noted,
“American now dominates be
cause it now controls two-thirds
of the market out of Dallas-Fort
Worth. It is going to be very
hard to beat that.”
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■ chickens, he said. | programs at Texas A&M Tui-
■rsity which were rated in a na-
fhe second would tional survey,
tiers begin demandi® 1 he study, conduc ted by the
ers, Cain said. Top Conference Board of Associated
sistentlv larger bti Research Councils, examined
|he quality of major university
Sbctoral programs in mathema
tics, chemistry, computer scien
ce, geoscience, physics and sta
tistics.
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graduate programs since a study
conducted by the American
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Council on Education in 1969.
T he ratings were based on a
100 scale, with ratings above 50
indicating programs that are
adequate or better and those be
low 50 in need of improvement.
Ratings above 70 are considered
excellent.
T he chemistry department
was rated a 67. Four other de
partments were rated above 50.
Statistics ranked second, fol
lowed by geophysics, physics,
and geology. Computer science
was rated a 44. T he math de
partment was not ranked.
The basis for comparison in
cludes the si/.e of the facultv, the
percentage of faculty members
receiving research support from
federal agencies, and the extent
of library holdings. The number
of graduate students and their
success in finding jobs also was
considered.
The study also conducted a
reputational survey completed
by faculty members.
Over 1,000 faculty members
at various universities were
asked to determine the scholarly
competence and achievements
of other faculty members, prog
ram effectiveness in educating
research scholars and program
improvement over the past five
years.
The committee is aware that
critics may say that the raters are
less familiar with smaller prog
rams, and that there is a dis
proportionate number of alum
ni of larger doctoral programs
in the study and that the study is
geographically biased.
The committee report also
defended its reputational survey
on grounds that graduate stu
dents, faculty advisers and
granting agencies make deci
sions based on impressions of a
program’s quality.
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A discussion of psychic phenomena
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Tuesday October 26 7:30 p.m.
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| ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —
ury selection began Monday in
Jederal court for the accused
ringleader of a multimillion-
dollar alien smuggling ring and
four other defendants.
I Salvador Pineda Vergara, a
[hotel owner from Ciudad
luarez, Mexico, was the chief
iuspect among 38 people in-
*cted last June in what iinmig-
ation officials said was the hig
hest alien smuggling ring ever
broken in U.S. historv.
Immigration and Naturaliza
tion Service officials in Washing
ton estimated that as many as
2,000 aliens were smuggled
across the border at El Paso each
month during the 4.5-year life
of the ring.
Also scheduled to lie tried
this week before U.S. District
Judge Edwin Mechem are Car
men and Carlos Perea of Belen,
N.M., and Baldomero Hernan
dez and his wife, Maria Asun
cion Martinez de Hernandez,
both of El Paso.
Prosecutors entered Mon
day’s jury selection with one de
position under their belts after a
Belen man’s guilty plea Friday to
a charge of conspiracy.
Authorities charged June 23
that the accused smugglers had
used Amtrak trains and cars to
move the illegals from Texas
and New Mexico to Hispanic
neighborhoods on Chicago’s
west side and elsewhere.
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