Word: boac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rate-cutting was a crime in British eyes because Britain's BOAC, charging $647, was not ready to compete with it. While Pan Am and American were getting surplus DC-45, BOAC continued to fly into Baltimore with Boeing clippers, which one British airman called: "A bit antique, you know...
...BOAC could scrap its obsolete clippers (as Pan Am plans to do), buy surplus U.S. landplanes. But the British Government prefers not to shock proud Britons by using U.S. planes. Britons fallaciously believe that their own planemakers will soon produce suitable landplanes. Actually, Britain's first postwar landplane, the Tudor, will not be ready until spring, has no chance to compete with U.S. planes...
Thus British policy tends toward a dog-in-the-manger role. Instead of making BOAC efficient, it punishes U.S. airlines for their efficiency. Efforts to negotiate an Anglo-American air agreement have been blocked by Britain's insistence on rate regulation by fixing fares on the level at which the most efficient operator could make a profit. Pan Am said that this was exactly what it was doing...
...wanted to start his own airline connecting Buenos Aires and Montevideo and Asuncion (now connected by his ships). To do so, Dodero tried unsuccessfully to buy U.S. planes in 1943. In England last summer the reception was warmer. Dodero was royally wined & dined. He got the wholehearted blessing of BOAC, Pan Am's most determined foreign competitors. Dodero bought four of Short Brothers' Sunderlands. This week the U.S. helped also. It allotted Dodero two surplus DC-45. Eventually, Dodero plans to buy at least six more planes, fly to Europe in competition with a proposed Pan Am route...
Despite ample warning, Pan Am's competitors were caught with their rates up. American Overseas Airlines went on charging $572. Britain's BOAC charges $647 one way, $1,299 round trip. But the American Express Co. was on its toes. On the basis of the new fares, it offered a two-week, all expense air tour of Europe next summer. Price...