Word: boac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOAC's flight 911 had taken off in perfect weather twelve minutes before the disaster from Tokyo International and had climbed to 6,000 feet. The passengers were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail...
Japan Air Lines will become only the third foreign carrier (after Australia's Qantas and Britain's BOAC) both to fly across the U.S. and to fly all the way around the world. The U.S.'s Trans World Airlines has no service across the Pacific; Pan American cannot fly across the U.S. Aviation circles, however, expect that Pan Am will now press its long-standing application to Washington for cross-country rights...
...packing the islands right up to the high-water mark. Pan American increased its seats to and from the Caribbean by 41% this year (to 26,000 a week), but so many people are there now that no seats are available coming back before Jan. 10. Late bookers found BOAC in the same merry fix. Puerto Rico had upwards of 75,000 visitors last weekend alone. Jamaica's bookings were up 25% from last year. The sun-seekers poured in with their presents already bought, and were prepared to sing Silent Night on Christmas Eve in the hotel lounge...
...from Canada on another. The wedding party was installed in a spanking new Juarez motel, and a judge came to marry the happy couple in their motel suite. Another Ford plane took them to Nassau in the Bahamas. Waiting there was a Boeing 707 that Niarchos had chartered from BOAC to take them to Zurich (price: roughly $40,000). From there, they boarded his own Lear jet for the last leg of the trip to St. Moritz. When they got there, they headed straight for a hotel instead of Niarchos' own mountainside chalet. Why? Because in the chalet...
...pushing up load factors past the break-even point for almost all major carriers. To increase profit margins as well as loads, the airlines are streamlining operations. Computerized electronic reservations systems and automated baggage handling have enabled SAS to eliminate 2,700 employees from the payroll in three years. BOAC plans a staff reduction of 18% by 1967. KLM has not only cut back personnel but has also reduced its fleet from 85 planes to 40-and is doing more business than ever. Lufthansa is switching completely to Boeing planes, plans to add 21 short-haul 737s to its fleet...