World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-03-10
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[0:00] Today, we hope you have a great evening
[0:02] and tomorrow all you're just going to
[0:04] love it.
[0:13] On World News Tonight this Wednesday,
[0:15] passengers' rights.
[0:17] become bigger and bigger,
[0:19] they respect their passengers less and
[0:21] less.
[0:22] The government would like to do
[0:23] something about it.
[0:24] Devastating times in America's oil
[0:26] fields. The price so low, you might as
[0:28] well cap the well.
[0:30] The police departments with time on
[0:32] their hands. Time to look again at
[0:35] unsolved murders.
[0:36] And the Japanese pearl industry,
[0:38] something terrible is happening.
[0:48] From ABC News world headquarters in New
[0:50] York,
[0:52] this is World News Tonight with Peter
[0:54] Jennings.
[0:55] Good evening. To put the headline on it,
[0:56] we're going to begin tonight with 9,600
[0:59] complaints from unhappy passengers. That
[1:02] is how many formal complaints there were
[1:04] last year to the Department of
[1:05] Transportation alone about the state of
[1:07] the nation's airlines. And so today,
[1:10] there was a lot of interest when the
[1:11] House of Representatives made a
[1:13] well-publicized effort to get on the
[1:15] passenger's side. ABC's Linda Douglas
[1:18] starts us off on Capitol Hill.
[1:20] The horror stories are familiar to
[1:22] anyone who flies. Flights canceled with
[1:25] no explanation. Hours spent trapped in
[1:27] the terminal or on the plane. Lost
[1:30] luggage. Rude treatment. Enraged
[1:32] passengers are demanding new legal
[1:34] rights, and Congress is now rushing to
[1:36] grant them.
[1:36] The airline business has become a rather
[1:38] jaded bottom line pack 'em in like
[1:41] sardines industry.
[1:42] Today, a House panel listened as several
[1:45] witnesses relive their nightmarish
[1:46] exper