Word: alitalia
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...rape in Tennessee, will not get a new trial because he failed to prove that the continual absence of Negroes on local jury panels was the result of racial discrimination. In the other, five plaintiffs seeking damages for wrongful death and personal injuries in the crash of an Alitalia plane near Shannon Airport in 1960 will be allowed to sue for more than the $8,300 limit then in effect because the limitation was stated in such small print that it was too difficult to read...
Like Lufthansa, other foreign airlines are also taking pains to publicize their expenditures in the U.S. Spain's Iberia Air Lines, for example, has run U.S. newspaper ads that ask: "We buy your planes. Shouldn't you fly ours?" And this week Italy's Alitalia plans a similar ad, pointing out that its aircraft purchases and operating expenses in the U.S. will amount to some $1 billion...
...carriers, sharing of maintenance costs has become increasingly common. Airlines flying Boeing 707s utilize the same spare-parts pool. United Airlines in San Francisco services jet aircraft for ten other airlines. In San Diego, "Pacific Southwest Airlines operates a training program for pilots from such lines as Nippon, Alitalia and Braniff...
...entire journey, in fact, had the trappings of a presidential-or royal-cavalcade. To make sure that her twelve-hour flight from Rome, where she stopped en route, to Bangkok would be both safe and comfortable, Alitalia stripped, searched and then replaced her plane's inside furnishings, made up a special 3-ft. by 6-ft. bed for her in what is usually the first-class lounge. The Pope, Women's Wear Daily noted in its distinctively catty way, is given no better treatment. In Bangkok, she was met by Thai officials, slept at the Thai government...
...airlines-Pan American, TWA, American, Northwest Orient, Continental, United, National and World Airways-have ordered 70 of the big planes. Other orders have come from Lufthansa German Airlines, Japan Air Lines, BOAC, Air France, Alitalia, Irish International Airlines, KLM and Air-India. Most of the carriers prefer a first-and tourist-class seating that allows for 350 to 362 passengers. To Boeing, which had originally planned the 747 as a military transport that would be similar to Lockheed's successful C-5A, this almost negates the whole idea of the nine-abreast economy airliners. To prove the point, Boeing...