The writer of the article (and the WSJ editor editor who approved the article as well!) apparently don't realize that "famous" and "infamous" are not synonyms. If the TWA terminal at JFK and the Braniff name were infamous, nobody would be considering resurrecting them.
As well as other grammatical errors.
- People appreciating the completion to government carriers created by privately owned airline.
- Mexicana failed from 1928 to 2010. (I know that time travels more slowly in Mexico, but even in Mexico that is a long time for a failure to play out.)
And this is the great one: "Similar to the major U.S. carriers of decades past, Air Berlin was veneered by its customers." I'm trying to picture this. The plane rolls up to the gate on the tarmac, and the ground crew encases the plane in scaffolding. Meanwhile, the gate agents are giving all of the passengers thin sheets of wood and spray-on adhesive . As the passengers board, they pass through the scaffolding and each in turn, presses their sheet of wood onto the side of the plane.
With a business model such as that, it's no wonder they went bankrupt. Heck, it's surprising they got off the ground in the first place!!!!
