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Cutting Costs. Boeing has 167 orders totaling more than $3.3 billion from 28 airlines. Pan American plans to put the first jumbo jet into service across the Atlantic in December, with TWA following about two months later. By next midyear, Pan Am plans to have 25 of the 747s, each costing more than $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: The Giant Takes Off | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...seat-of-the-pants pioneer still running a major U.S. airline feels that he has many things to accomplish before he and Audrey can ride off into the sunset. For one thing, Six wants to be on hand for the day when Continental takes delivery of the three huge 747s that it has on order. "I'm the guy who took a look at the DC-3 and thought it was too big to fly. So I want to see these big ones come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Six at 61 | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

...inefficiency and inordinately high profits. The expense of developing the TSR 2 bomber, for example, became so outlandish that the government instead decided to buy 50 American F-llls. Commercial lines have suffered too; BOAC, after innumerable problems with British-made equipment, put $154 million down on six Boeing 747s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: An Excess of Excess Profits | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...BOAC-owned 707 on Mount Fuji last March; moreover, that disaster led to the discovery of hairline tail fissures that briefly grounded a number of the company's 21 other 707s. The fact that BOAC has placed new orders for four Boeing 707 freighters and six Boeing 747s-and no additional null - is too much for many an M.P. The airline, charges Tory Stephen Hastings, has become a "Boeing shop window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Brickbats at BOAC | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...have expansive notions about how to compart them. Pan American is pondering whether to put a piano bar aboard. TWA is contemplating a cocktail lounge and a nursery for children. To make room for such amenities, the airlines will sacrifice payload. Though designed with a 490-seat capacity, the 747s due for delivery starting in 1969 will actually carry from 340 to 390 passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Jazz for the Jumbo Jets | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

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