European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Personal because you re starved or a social life the wife said. When you come Home you re so sick of entertaining thai All you want to do is  for others there Are negotiated in Adolfs. With a Mes Lyle Bol Lorn line in the Black. Donna Clayburn Johnson an account executive for can has been married Lor two months. While she i travels Only about one week in Lour the mileage lends to make the newlyweds hearts grow fonder. La s interesting for us we both have Southeastern Lemories and vie have had plenty of opportunities to meet in other cities and have dinner in  she said but Lor most constant travel is a King rile Wilh hours spent in flight delays in Pursuit of lost baggage hailing cabs or booking hotel rooms the i Reaf of sir disaster such As Iho con mental airlines Jet disaster in Denver prompts some couples to engage in psychic a duals. Whenever 1 leave Atlanta. I kiss my Boyfriend three times for Luck said one female executive who frequently flies the Northeast corridor. I know in can l really Stop an Accident. But 50 far. In has t failed me inevitably. Hero is scan Leisure Lime Buck Home and most is spent in laggard exhaustion. Iii did t have full Lime help in the Home. I could t do if said Janelle Nevins. Who travels eight Days a month As vice president of Nevis marketing group i could t look or someone to Waichi the kids every time i Wen out of  and Lor those planning children parenthood May a delayed longer than to lights. Became of 111 on the Road Clayburn Johnson s biological clock is on snooze alarm. When she and her husband decide to have kids something s going la change something will have to change she said the travel stars consuming  is Spears Wade said when it comes Down to really thinking about Starling a family it turns into a question of when " for All the Speed of modern travel the baldwins have Learned life in the fast Lane Means slowing Lor the emotional and quotidian curves. You have to learn that this kind of life moans it will take longer for seme things to gel done. The More impatient one is with he other person and wih themselves the  this  Yel for the travelling class for whom the parking lots ticketing counters and concourses at Harl shield Are Purgatory Lor married life time stands still. Many common May Al problems go unresolved reserved for the rare intervals Between flights Lite goes on. By often with weary trepidation about the Tutte some things might take longer deciding what album to buy. What to do with a spare room Baldwin said s not thai anything gets More Complex just that things Lake longer. It we want to buy a mattress together we Don t pick a Day we pick iwo weeks from now and Ihen Aday martial ditto Cultrea May also seem smaller when exposed to the Ozone of travel what happens is problems Gei Back in perspective Baldwin said you do belter on these things Long distance when you re missing her " and then there is the catch-22 of hyper mobility travel enough and As a Reward you travel More for free. It elicits groans from the Ai bound couples frequent flyer Points accumulate by the hundreds of thousands of Miles. An them soft to Yain St try jeez Asol a year go. I had enough Lor iwo round Tnp first class tickets to  Spears Wade said Ard we Haven t had time to use them yet the Romance of this Lite is Linding we me both Home at the same time Lloyd Jones said the last i mgl want to do is redeem my coupons for a trip somewhere the business of the concorde by Marcy Gordon associated Pressa after about 10 years of trans Atlantic lights the supersonic concorde Jet has become a High profile Symbol of advanced technology and luxury travel but its status As a commercial Enterprise is unclear. The concorde Wilh its streamlined suet to Trun body tapering into a sharply pointed nose is widely recognized As a sleek embodiment of the most modern concepts in air travel Bui it s not for the huddled masses o air travellers Ai just under $6,000 Lor a round trip ticket Between new York and London about 30 percent More than the regular Drof class Are the concorde carers mainly to people who Don t have to worry about the cos i of lying. Around 80 percent of passengers on scheduled concorde flights Are business Irav Elers. Who need to Wing across Iho Atlantic in a hurry. They and their companies Are willing to pay a hotly Premium Tor a 3 /2-Hrxjr flight. Slicing Aboul four hours from the Normal trans Atlantic run Al a cruising Speed twice the Speed of sound. The average passenger on concorde flight s Between new York and London operated by British airways is a High ranking executive in a Large . Or British company a Man 50 to 60 years old. Who takes the concorde Al least three or four times a year. It s not a Price critical operation capt. Brian Walpole the general manager of British airways. Concorde division said in a recent interview. The real Core of our business is taking business people Between new York and  British airways with seven concorde ranging in age from 7 to 12 years operates two daily flights Between new York and London As Well As three flights a week Between London. Washington and Miami government owned air France the other concorde operator with a Fleet of is has one round trip flight a Day Between Mew York and pans november marked the font anniversary Ai the to airlines concorde flights Between new York and London and new York and pans besides the heavy contingent of business passengers. The concorde also draws on a Pool of politicians diplomats and Jel selting Rich and famous " us i Equen fliers include movie stars Paul Newman Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Collins athletes John Mcenroe. Jimmy Connors and Jack Nicklaus. As Well As Britain s Queen Elizabeth ii and prime minister Margarct Thatcher but does it make Money Al $6.000 a head Wilh the Loo passenger planes running an average 60 percent full on the new York London route they would seem to be turning a tidy Profil concorde economics Aren t so simple however the aircraft were designed and built As a bold highly political Enterprise by the British and French governments stalled separately in 1956. Then As a Jolt Propec Afler 1962 the iwo government in a bid to Challenge the dominance of u a Ai Cratl makers in world markets foot the Bill with More than $2 billion in pint development costs. The concorde began commercial flights in May 1976. Lying lion London and Paris to Wash Glon the aircraft came up against Strong environmental opposition in new York and weren t allowed to Fly into Inal City until 18 months later. The British and French governments continued to subsidize the program until 1963 the heavy government subsidies along with High operating costs meant that it would take a Long Lime for the concorde to Start paying its own Way. And the problem is complicated by the fact that the iwo airlines Don l provide detailed financial data for their concorde operations the general consensus is thai on a fully allocated basis for Cost their s no Way that thing can Maka  said Edward Sparkman. An Ai Tine analyst for investment firm Paine Webber inc it s us such an oddball piece of the business " Starkman and other analysis concede that Wilhour Alt the financial Agures. They can Only guess Al How concorde 15 faring Walpole who is the senior concorde Pilot Ai. Well As manager of the division Lor big Ash aira3 s insists shut the plane is no profitable after Al nil have years of losses ,1987 the stars and stripes Pagels