Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the ink barely dry on the 1977 brochures, the outlook for spring/summer air travel is becoming clear. Flying is in for a big boost. One major reason: the new ticketing arrangement called Advance Booking Charters, which enables passengers to get low-cost round-trip air transportation with fewer restrictions...
A bonanza for budget-conscious vacationers, ABCs are the latest addition to the confusing alphabet soup of special fares with which the airlines have been wooing cost-conscious travelers (see chart). Ironically, ABCs came into being last fall because of politics as much as economics-specifically, Gerald Ford's...
Not all foreign governments have as yet agreed to accept ABC flights. Nonetheless, about 50% of all charter applications received by the CAB since October have been for ABC trips, competitively priced as much as 40% below regular economy rates on scheduled flights. (In 1975 U.S. charter or supplemental airlines...
The scheduled airlines, though, are not all pleased. Charter carriers, they point out, do not have to provide year-round service on less popular routes. The newcomers, in the words of a Trans World Airlines executive, "skim the cream-run into the market, grab what they can in peak season...
ABCs may be a headache for the scheduled airlines, but they could prove a minor worry compared with another nightmare looming on the aviation horizon-Skytrain, Freddie Laker's proposed international air shuttle. Skytrain is aimed at a sector of the travel market that even the ABCs do not...