Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Six airlines are chasing Laker to London
Freddie Laker is no Rickenbacker, Lindbergh, Mitchell, Doolittle or Armstrong. But the feisty Englishman has made aviation history in his own way, by forcing transatlantic fares lower than major airlines had said they could ever go. In June, Laker won approval from the Carter Administration to offer round-trip flights...
Anderson further has the luck to take over at a time when the always cyclical civilian aircraft industry seems to be starting on an upswing. Although McDonnell Douglas' deliveries of DC-9s and DC-10s will drop from 65 in 1976 to 37 this year, the company has already...
Palm's program is already on 126 weekly flights connecting Germany with the Americas, Africa and the Far East, and is also available in printed form. Scandinavian Airlines has followed suit with an exercise program featuring such bracing gyrations as "jogging on the spot," "rowing while seated" and "slalom...
Although North Atlantic scheduled air travel was up about 9% for the first quarter of 1977, the increase would have been even greater had it not been for the stiff competition from charter airlines. Industry experts believe Pan Am's and TWA's experiments on the London route...