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...more, their admen also stress national characteristics-U.S. flying experience, French cooking, British reliability. Since the majority of transatlantic customers are American, most of the foreign lines try to appeal to their old-country loyalties. With two of the biggest blocs to draw on, Ireland's Aer Lingus and Israel's El Al are reaping an ethnic harvest. Once the two lines shared an Idlewild airport terminal that was fondly known as "Abie's Irish Airline," but booming business has forced them into separate quarters...
...Royal Tara china with such delicacies as grilled Liffey salmon steaks, Irish coffee and Guinness stout. All the while, Irish jigs frolic over the intercom and the captain communicates in a bog-thickened brogue. Such blarney-and the practical advantage that the Irish government permits only state-owned Aer Lingus to land at Dublin as well as Shannon-last year accounted for earnings of $1,300,000 and a fourth year in the black on the transatlantic route...
Orthodox Lunches. For El Al, unlike Aer Lingus, the ethnic approach creates problems as well as customers. Obeying Jewish law, El Al loses 62 flying days annually by not operating in or out of Tel Aviv's Lod Airport on the Sabbath and religious holidays. To meet orthodox dietary prohibitions, flights are scheduled so that Jewish passengers will not be stranded at mealtime in such nonkosher cities as Teheran and Athens. And at a cargo weight loss of 600 Ibs. each trip, El Al's jets carry extra pots and double sets of plates for meat and dairy...
...inexhaustible source of industrial fuel in its peat bogs, where huge machines now cut turf that a busy, state-owned processing plant turns into inexpensive, slow-burning briquettes. After a long political wrangle, he got Ireland's state-owned airline off the ground, and has watched happily as Aer Lingus' shamrock-painted planes have made it one of the few government airlines to turn a consistent profit on the Atlantic...
...Managing Director Whitney Straight had ordered 25 of the giant Britannias before the prototype made its first flight last week, plans to use its long range (4,000 miles with safe margins) and space to offer nonstop transatlantic coach service by 1954. British European, Air France, Ireland's Aer Lingus, and Trans-Australia have already placed 48 orders for the smaller Viscount...