Word: 4s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local subsidiary and the first non-U.S. company to get a Constellation, flew one from Rio to Casablanca to scout a route to London and Paris for the first Brazilian overseas airline. But Panair President Paulo Sampaio had only a brief headstart on Cruzeiro, whose DC-4s will be flying the Atlantic before summer...
...present, the limitation will not hurt U.S. companies. Their DC-4s cannot carry more than 500 passengers weekly. But Pan Am and American expect to get bigger Constellations in the next few months. If the limitation is still in force, they will then be forced to fly some of their planes partly empty. Passengers who want to fly will have to pay higher rates and travel on BOAC's obsolescent Clippers. U.S. airmen hoped that the limitation would be temporary, and would be lifted when the North Atlantic Conference of the International Air Transport Association meets in New York...
...hand at deflating competitors, announced that it was immediately cutting its passenger fare to Great Britain from $525 to Foynes to $275 all the way to London. It could do this, it said smoothly, because it was ready to start transatlantic service this week with Douglas DC-4s, faster and cheaper to operate than Clippers...
...already announced that its first transatlantic commercial flight, in a DC-4, would leave for London this week. Hastily, American tried to decide whether to drop its fare to meet Pan Am's rate. Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., which could hardly wait to start transatlantic flying in DC-4s, suddenly cooled. It decided to postpone its Atlantic service until its fleet of highspeed, low-operating Constellations are delivered next month...
...week's end the threat of a rate war settled down into an uneasy armistice. Pan Am confessed that its DC-4s were not quite ready, but hopes to start them this week. It put off its fare cut until they are ready to begin. Vastly relieved, American Airlines went ahead with preparations for its first flight-at the old rate...