Word: boac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next week, at a meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Nice, 54 international lines will be asked to approve the plan, agree on a rate. Even if there is no agreement, tourist flights by next spring are virtually assured. Pan Am, T.W.A. and BOAC are prepared to fly at the tourist rates, no matter what other I.A.T.A. members...
...chill of a gathering fog, porters loaded 97 pieces of baggage aboard the big-bellied BOAC Stratocruiser Canopus* at floodlit London Airport. Just before midnight, as hundreds of well-wishers cheered, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh got aboard; it was the first overseas flight for an heir to the British throne. At 12:31 a.m., the Canopus took off into the mist. Back on the tarmac, Queen Elizabeth blew a last kiss, said to a companion: "I'm full of envy...
...government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. reported a profit of ?40,000 ($112,000) for the second quarter, the first quarterly profit in BOAC history. BOAC's methods: cut personnel (from 23,000 in 1948 to 16,000 at present), run fewer planes (70 v. 130 in 1948) and bigger ones (BOAC now operates nothing but Boeing Stratocruisers on its North Atlantic runs), emphasize personal service. Result: BOAC can now break even on 70% passenger capacity, v. the 100% required three years...
...busy. A wholesale drug supplier furnished a single vial of Varidase; it was hustled to Idlewild airport. Within six hours of the message from Oporto, the vial was on its way to London on an Israeli airlines plane; within a few more hours, a BOAC airliner set it down in Lisbon. Father Santos was waiting, hurried home with the vial in a Portuguese military plane...
...just a publicity stunt for BOAC. Washington's Educational Services, a serious-minded outfit dedicated to the proposition of "Recordings for more effective learning," had arranged the show to promote the latest wrinkle in learning-while-sleeping devices. Educational Services is planning to put out a tape-recording kit with instructions for learning anything from good behavior (for children) to old Danish...