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...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...
...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...
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...
England's troubled airplane-making industry is long since inured to insult, but last week it suffered one of the unkindest blows of all. The country's two biggest airlines, BOAC and BEA, both state-controlled, asked the government for permission to buy Boeing-made U.S. planes...
...BOAC wanted to commit $154 million toward the purchase of six Boeing 747s, the jumbo jet (up to 490 passengers) that will go into service in late 1969. The government gave BOAC a go-ahead. Already under fire because its British-made equipment has developed maintenance bugs, BEA asked that it be allowed to buy $224 million worth of Boeing 727s and 737s, both relatively short-range but highly economical jets. BEA got turned down cold...