Word: 747s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open fare" situation. Although Pan Am officials remain worried that too much bulk flying may cut into their scheduled-service sales, air officials in Washington are convinced that U.S. carriers stand to profit from the new era. As owner of the world's biggest (30) fleet of 747s, they reason, Pan Am has every chance of profiting the most because it has the most seats to offer to group travelers...
...airport is new and efficient, if small. It was built to handle the growing flow of tourists; formerly, they were U.S. Gls on leave from VietNam, but these days, they are mostly Japanese. The Japanese fly three hours in cramped Boeing 707s-Taipei International Airport can not handle 747s-to escape their crowded, polluted megalopolis for their brief vacations...
...even though Pratt & Whitney has supplied the airlines with new blades made of higher heat-resistant alloys. Pratt & Whitney is now sending to the lines a comprehensive "modification kit" that changes parts of the engine and converts it to the equivalent of the power plant used in the new 747s. These later-model planes have not had an abnormally high rate of blade failure. Trouble is, the company is not turning out the kits as fast as the lines require, and the modification program will not be completed until...
National Airlines has been looking for someone to buy its two 747s "since the day they were delivered," says one executive of the company. Braniff ordered two jumbos but, with help from Boeing, arranged to sell one of them to Universal Airlines, a charter carrier, before the plane ever left the factory. TWA officers are willing to part with one or two of their 19 jumbos if they can find a buyer. Pan Am chiefs would welcome an offer to buy or lease one of their 747s...
Several airlines are simply trying to avoid using their jumbos in order to save money. United has postponed delivery of four 747s from mid-1971 to early 1973. Pan Am is keeping two jumbos in mothballs in Wichita, Kan., and is leasing three more to Eastern Air Lines. World Airways canceled its order for three 747s many months...