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...flights in the first days following the raid. Instead of scheduling separate flights to London and Paris, for example, it serviced both capitals with a single daily plane from Beirut. To back up its remaining five planes, the line has since chartered three Comets from Kuwait Airways, one Boeing 720B from Ethiopian Airlines and another Boeing from Air France. It will also have six months' free use of a Caravelle owned by Morocco's King Hassan II. Other offers to help have come in from Pan American, Lufthansa, KLM and Russia's Aeroflot...
...economic development and other problems of the Middle East. In the old days of Saudi extravagance, there would have been one plane for the King, another for his luggage and 100 to 150 traveling companions. This time there were only one black, green and white Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 720B and a mere nine assistants...
...disasters hit Pakistan last week, one as modern as the jet age, one as ancient as the wind on the face of the waters. Approaching Cairo, a Pakistani International Airlines Boeing 720B, inaugurating a new Karachi-Cairo-London run, developed engine trouble and crashed. All but six of its 130 passengers and crew were killed, including 21 Pakistani newsmen. "It was the will of God," said Gala Alkarini, one survivor, as seven baboons that had been in the luggage compartment capered, unharmed, amid the smoking ruins...
Tiny but Aggressive. With bus-schedule regularity, a weekly total of 1,105 nonstop flights shuttle between Los Angeles and San Francisco. United has assigned its three newest Boeing 727 jets exclusively to the route. Pacific Southwest has ordered five 727s and Western four 720B jets to throw into the battle. Both United and TWA have lowered their one-way jet coach fares from $23.70 to only $14.50 to compete with Western's rock-bottom $11.43 flights on venerable DC-6Bs. Western promptly lodged a protest with the Civil...
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