Word: boac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point the HSA's case is arguable. The withdrawal of the British Overseas Airways Corporation from the charter market undoubtedly caused the Charter Flights Agency a great deal of hardship. The HSA has always obtained its planes from University Travel Service, and UTS has always dealt exclusively with BOAC. This year, bargaining with reluctant and unfamiliar companies, the UTS probably incurred higher prices...
...Harvard retain its tics with UTS? Other Boston agencies have in the past spread their goodwill to airlines other than BOAC and might have this year secured the HSA contracts with airlines cheaper than Air France and Swissair. We do not know. The HSA report should treat this issue directly and in great detail...
Sohn planned to obtain his plane from British Eagle Airlines, a regularly scheduled carrier between London and the continent. British Eagle purchased the prop jets that the British Overseas Airways sold after last summer, according to Sohn. All HSA European charter flights in 1964 used the BOAC planes, but this summer's contracts are with other European lines...
...agent, University Travel Service, has traditionally done its charter business solely with BOAC. Last summer BOAC unexpectedly terminated most of its chartering operations, and UTS was obliged to deal with airlines unfamiliar to it. Unfamiliarity itself probably meant higher charges. Furthermore, because planes are always in short supply, only the very expensive airlines, Swissair and Air France, would negotiate with UTS on such short notice...
...higher costs have understandably necessitated higher HSA prices. But there is, at present, no way of knowing how much of this year's price can be blamed on higher costs. A major Boston charterer has told the CRIMSON that, to his best knowledge of BOAC, Swissair and Air France prices, the HSA charged $30 per passenger in administrative fees last year, and is still charging at least $15 this year. According to this source, the usual amount, and IATA's working definition of "reasonable...