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PLANE CHARTER will soon be as easy and inexpensive as renting a bus, truck or boat. Under a system set up by the Aircoach Transport Association, charter groups will no longer have to deal with scattered individual airlines, rarely pay expensive ferrying costs to fly empty planes back from outlying points. Instead, ACTA will act as a general agent for more than 30 nonscheduled lines, be able to pick the nearest available plane and charter it for as little as 2½? per passenger mile...
...number of scheduled flights if nonskeds started ganging up on the most profitable runs flown by big carriers. Said a CAB official: "This is a classic example of crying before you're hurt. The plain fact is that the nonskeds deserve a break. They were the pioneers in aircoach travel. Why should they be denied a chance to grow with the rest of the industry...
NONSCHEDULED AIRLINES will be chopped nearly 50%, if Civil Aeronautics Board examiners have their way. They recommended to the board that 27 of the surviving 60 big nonscheduled carriers (among them: All American Airways, Monarch Air Service, U.S. Aircoach) be put out of business, on grounds that they overlap scheduled lines. For the 33 other nonscheduled lines, including most of the biggest names, the examiners want a revised classification as "supplemental carriers," which will allow them unlimited charter service plus three independent passenger flights between any two points each month...
FIRST NONSTOP DC-6B aircoach flights between Los Angeles and New York were started last week by North American Airlines, biggest (1953 revenue: $10 million) nonscheduled passenger carrier. North American (no kin to American Airlines or North American Aviation, Inc.) has bought two 307-m.p.h. Douglas DC-6Bs, will use them to replace older DC-4s in daily service. Round-trip fare: $160 v, $198 for scheduled (American, United, T.W.A.) aircoach service to the West Coast...
...fact that they fathered low passenger rates, thus converted thousands to air travel and helped all airlines. (Bureau of the Census surveys showed that 75% of non-sked passengers would have traveled by bus, train or not at all if it hadn't been for aircoach.) In places like Alaska, non-skeds have helped bring a revolution in transportation. Says Alaska s Governor Ernest Gruening: "The Civil Aeronautics Board has been blind to our needs and deaf to our appeals...