What Will It Take to Survive?

Events during the last six months have made research for this article a real challenge. It’s almost like writing an article on the state of the commercial airline industry for the November 2001 issue of “Your Aviation Monthly Magazine.”

The global economy is not what it was just a year ago. At that time, we had our share of business challenges to contend with—among them increasing energy prices, with related increases in manufacturing and raw materials costs. The clouds on the horizon, while looming large at the time, were just the leading edge of the economic tsunami that was building up steam just out of sight a short year later.