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BOEING JETLINERS will probably be bought by Britain's BOAC and other Commonwealth airlines. Boeing is in line to get order for 17 planes from BOAC, another three from South African Airways to add to seven jets recently sold Australia's Qantas Empire Airways. Rumors also buzz that Boeing will get order for 19 more 707s from Howard Hughes's Trans World Airlines, which has already ordered eight...
POLAR AIR ROUTES are in prospect for T.W.A. and Pan American. With Scandinavian Airlines already making polar runs and Lufthansa and BOAC slated to start soon, CAB will probably certify two U.S. lines in late summer...
...wrestled BOAC, Britain's state-owned airline, out of its postwar tail spin stepped away from the controls last week with a blast at "irksome political interference." After turning a 1948 loss of $30 million into a 1954 profit of $4,000,000, Sir Miles Thomas, 59, quit as BOAC chairman and chief executive...
...Miles had fought bureaucratic red tape and Britain's planemakers throughout his eight years at BOAC. He stirred up storms by pruning BOAC's staff from 24,000 to 18,000. And he galled Britons by replacing British planes with U.S. Boeing Stratocruisers and Lockheed Constellations. Recently, he ordered Douglas DC-7Cs as substitutes for de Havilland's ill-fated Comet jet liner. Said Sir Miles last week: "I was tired of being the whipping boy of some politicians. You can either have a competitive airline using the best available equipment, or you can have a shopwindow...
...BOAC hopes to put the Bristol Britannia, a four-engined turboprop, in service across the Atlantic by 1957, fly the ocean nonstop at 400 m.p.h...