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...this success could be in jeopardy if a new fare proposal by Pan American Airways is approved at a meeting of I.A.T.A. members next month. Aiming to fill the giant 747s, Pan Am wants a $99 one-way transatlantic fare for students, who would be offered seats on a stand-by basis...
...deck. Of the 15,000 whom Pan Am has polled, about three-quarters praise the 747's spaciousness; the other one-quarter dislike the crowds or occasional delays in baggage handling. Passengers once were tied up for three hours at Rome's major airport after three 747s landed at approximately the same time...
...Lingus is, in fact, the European arm of our company. It is Aerlinte, our transatlantic division, best known in North America as Irish International Airlines, that has two 747s on order. We rank ninth among the 19 IATA carriers on the North Atlantic in terms of traffic carried during the eleven months to Nov. 30, 1969. Since the Boeing 747 can, as you pointed out, be fitted with up to 490 seats, a 400-seater should hardly be called a jampacked version. In fact, our intention is to have 24 first-class seats and 348 economy seats...
...takeoff was delayed almost five hours by trouble in the compressed-air system. In Washington, Federal Aviation Administration officials took note of another complication caused by the 747's bulk. Because of swirling air currents that the plane leaves in its wake, the FAA ordered controllers to keep 747s two to three times the normal distance away from other planes in the air, horizontally and vertically...
...risk what turned out to be $1 billion in turning the military reject into a commercial success. Pan American's founder, Juan Trippe, who had ordered the first 707s a decade before, was still in command. He backed Allen by placing the first order for 25 of the 747s and taking an option for more...