Word: aircoach
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...make more than three round trips a month over the major U.S. air routes and makes it illegal for a non-sked to fly more than eight times a month between the same two points. Thus, it would virtually put an end to the non-skeds' low-fare aircoach business. Said Aircoach Transport Association President Amos E. Heacock: the order is the result of "a calculated campaign by the scheduled airlines to gouge millions of extra . . . dollars from the public...
...dark that the Civil Aeronautics Board started proceedings to dismember it, split National's New York-Miami-New Orleans-Havana routes among healthier competitors. But President George T. ("Ted") Baker, who fathered National, proved it to be a lively corpse. By offering low-price ($53.35 plus tax) aircoach fares from New York to Miami, and getting hotels to make special rates, National built up a big off-season traffic to Florida, went after the luxury winter trade with eight new DC-6s. In eleven months of 1950, thanks partly to better business for all airlines, National chalked up more...
...Guardia Field, there was a smear of haze across the half moon; the summer night air was warm and humid. Most of the 55 passengers who crowded into the belly of the big, silent, high-tailed DC-4 were vacation-bound. At Northwest Airlines' special night-aircoach rates they could fly to Minneapolis for $47, or to Seattle, the end of the line, for $111-and only over night. Youngsters, husbands and wives, stenographers and a Roman Catholic priest (who had boarded the plane at the last minute) fastened their seat belts as the four engines sputtered to life...
...hours passed, friends and relatives of the passengers waited at the Minneapolis airport, desperate and weary. Alarms went out; planes and ships headed out into the storm, to criss-cross Lake Michigan, looking for wreckage. Close to the hour when the Northwest aircoach was due over Milwaukee, a woman on the Michigan lake shore near Benton Harbor had heard a plane roar low, thought she saw a burst of flame over the water. A retired Navy captain reported the same thing-a flash that rivaled the lightning, "flames for a number of seconds-nearly a minute, then light smoke...