Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sir / Call it extremely bad judgment, but do not describe the tragic downing of the Libyan Arab Airlines plane east of Suez [March 5] as carrying "aggression to new heights."
China continues its quest for new contacts and alignments throughout the world. Last week, the Chinese welcomed the inaugural flight to Peking by Ethiopian Airlines. TIME's Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan was aboard and duly found himself face to face with Premier Chou En-lai at the...
Chances that travelers flying the North Atlantic on scheduled airlines will pay sharply lower fares this summer hit a hard downdraft last week. The U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board turned down proposals from British Overseas Airways, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Olympic Airways for new low fares between the U.S. and Europe. BOAC...
The impasse also dims the scheduled lines' hopes of slowing or stopping a drain of passengers to the cut-rate charter flights offered by the nonscheduled carriers. Last week one such line was advertising two-to-four-week round-trip fares between New York and London for as little...
Barnes' promise to give up the subsidy will be an incentive for the CAB to award Allegheny the Atlanta routes, but other airlines may oppose the move _ particularly Delta, which is based in Atlanta. If Barnes wins he pledges that on Jan. 1, 1975, his line will "request formal...