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...require a lot of muscle power but little brain." To meet the construction deadline for the Jubail harbor, for example, Hyundai Co. is flying in 300 workers a week for an eventual total of 3,300, and Korean Air Lines has begun twice-weekly flights direct from Seoul to Bahrain. Business leaders expect the volume of contracts for this year to top $2 billion and to reach $10 billion...
After $3 billion in development costs and years of delay, the supersonic Concorde went into commercial service last week. An Air France plane made an inaugural flight from Paris to Rio de Janeiro; a British Airways craft flew from London to Bahrain. Aboard the Rio flight was Chris English, a TIME Washington Bureau copy clerk whose hobby is flying commercial airliners (since 1969 he has logged 412,000 air miles). TIME London Bureau Chief Herman Nickel flew to Bahrain. Their accounts follow, along with their ratings of their flights on factors other than speed (four airplanes was the highest possible...
LONDON TO BAHRAIN. 3,515 miles; total time: 4 hr. 10 min., v. the regular 6 hr. 20 min.; fare: $686, v. $597 standard first class...
...Venice, the heel of the Italian boot had been reached. Moments later, Greece flashed by on the left, and soon Crete and Cyprus were behind us, too. The yellow-brown dusk of the desert began to descend as Captain Norman Todd of British Airways throttled back and glided toward Bahrain, a 231-sq.-mi. island of oil rigs, a refinery and an aluminum smelter; it is a key stopover on the air route to Australia...
...postscript: Nickel returned to London by subsonic jet, taking 9½ hr. door to door, including stops in Vienna and Amsterdam. The Concorde carries 100 passengers from London to Bahrain, but only 71 the other way; takeoff temperatures, head winds and weather delays in Europe require more fuel...