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...rich North Atlantic airline routes. Counting Olympic, 21 scheduled airlines will be dogfighting this year for some $800 million in revenues from an expected 4,100,000 passengers. Longtime No. 1 Pan American last year had 20.3% of the traffic, but faces increasing competition from TWA (17.7%) and BOAC (12.6%). During the traffic-heavy summer months, efficient, unsubsidized carriers like Pan Am and TWA can gross $27,000 on a typical flight, earn $15,000 per trip-an operating profit of 55%. Even such heavily subsidized national airlines as Alitalia and KLM, which spend lavishly for high-rent offices...
Examining the wreckage of the BOAC airliner that crashed near Mount Fuji in March, U.S. and Japanese experts detected hairline cracks in the Boeing 707's shorn-off tail assembly. By last week the examination had spread to scores of Boeing jets around the world...
...that pilots soon will be able to know exactly where they are at all times-without any visual reference to ground or water. Airlines are experimenting with lasers and other devices to spot the dreaded "CAT" (clear-air turbulence), which may have torn the tail off a BOAC jet near Mount Fuji a month...
...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...