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...frills economy class in which tickets would cost 25% less than present coach rates (TIME, Nov. 10). The defeat of the Continental proposal delighted almost all the other major airlines, most of which had filed counterproposals demanding fare increases. But CAB's Kennedy-appointed Chairman Alan S. Boyd, one of the two members who wanted to give lower fares a try, dissented: "We see tremendous potential benefit to the traveling public and the carriers in a lower rate air service which will produce mass-volume business...
...Classic Detachment. The moving force behind the meetings was Alan Boyd, 39, a lanky, earnest ex-Air Force troop carrier combat pilot, who was a Florida state utilities and railroad commissioner before President Eisenhower appointed him to CAB in 1959. "I don't want to play God," says Democrat Boyd, "but CAB cannot maintain a position of classic detachment. I do not want my administration to be remembered as the one that let the airlines slide into as much trouble as the railroads are in." Boyd told the airline executives flatly: "We have all got to start doing...
...hard liquor will be eliminated from coach flights; only coffee, tea or milk will be served free. Cold snacks will be available-at a price. First-class service will remain substantially unchanged. So-called "frills in the cabin," claim the airlines, now cost them about $60 million a year. Boyd's recommendation: "Devote less attention to being traveling dining rooms, more to pure transportation...
Weightier Problems. Though no one expects that these new measures will cure all of the airlines' ills, agreement on the smaller points opens the way for the lines to seek solutions to the weightier problems also discussed by Boyd and the presidents. Both sides recognized that the single most pressing problem is overcompetition. Boyd favors mergers to eliminate wasteful competition. Says he: "There is no magic number of U.S. airlines to ensure competition." Some airline presidents prefer an orderly cutting back of over-competition on key routes, which are sometimes flown by as many as eight airlines-with most...
Concerned about the crippling costs of jet operations, Boyd and the presidents zeroed in on one likely solution: consolidating ground facilities. At many airports, each line maintains enough aircraft-support equipment, such as jet tow tractors (average cost: $29,000), engine starters and stairs, to service all the other lines as well. Consolidated repair and engine-rebuilding shops offer even greater possibilities for savings...