'98 PROFITS PREDICTED
The average employee working for a major U.S. airline earned $63,400 in 1997, a figure growing at about 3.7% annually. Worker productivity, measured in revenue ton miles, has been increasing at about a 4.5% rate each year since 1991, according to David Swierenga, chief economist for the Washington...
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