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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since he took over as head of Brit ain's ailing BOAC in early 1964, Sir Giles Guthrie, 51, has worked a minor miracle. Unfazed by the state-owned airline's $224 million accumulated def icit, brought about mostly by costly equipment flops in the 1950s, ex-Banker Guthrie lopped off money-losing routes, eliminated nonessential jobs, enlivened the company's advertising. His no-nonsense reforms soon had BOAC in the black for the first time in eight years; next month the company will announce record annual earnings of $64 million. The most remarkable thing about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Brickbats at BOAC | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

Last week one M.P. after another took the House of Commons floor to denounce the way BOAC is being run. What particularly rankled the critics was the airline's reliance on U.S. made Boeing planes instead of British aircraft. Indeed, one of Sir Giles's first decisions on taking command was to scrap an existing BOAC order for 30 Vickers Super VC10 passenger jets for the simple reason that Boeing 707s are more economical. Since Vickers was having trouble selling its plane to any non-British airline, the move provoked an angry outcry; in 1964 the government ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Brickbats at BOAC | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...will start selling the group fares on Jan. 1, pending approval by CAB, which is almost certain, and the foreign governments involved, which is not: some may decide that the plan will steal traffic away from their own national airlines. At week's end though, BOAC, Air-India and Scandinavian Air lines System said that they were willing to match Pan Am's deal; other airlines will try to push through an industry wide plan along the same lines, at a meeting of the rate-setting International Air Transport Association in Rome next week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Lower Fares | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...strangest things happen to air liners in Africa. A BOAC flight into Nairobi once touched down by mistake in the game park just outside of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Unhappy Landing of Flight 150 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Born. To Winston Spencer Churchill II, 25, BBC commentator, Randolph's son and Sir Winston's grandson; and Minnie d'Erlanger Churchill, 26, daughter of the late BOAC chief: their sec ond child, first daughter; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1966 | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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