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...said that Lufthansa has no intention of picking up its three Concorde options unless the plane is drastically redesigned. It is likely that Continental Airlines will also let its three places in the Concorde production line lapse next month, as will American with its six reservations, leaving Eastern and Braniff as the only potential takers in the U.S. Said Sir George Edwards, chairman of British Aircraft Corp., which along with France's Aerospatiale is building the Concorde: "We should not describe this as a fatal blow, but it's a hell of a setback...
National Airlines has been looking for someone to buy its two 747s "since the day they were delivered," says one executive of the company. Braniff ordered two jumbos but, with help from Boeing, arranged to sell one of them to Universal Airlines, a charter carrier, before the plane ever left the factory. TWA officers are willing to part with one or two of their 19 jumbos if they can find a buyer. Pan Am chiefs would welcome an offer to buy or lease one of their 747s...
...difficulties were developing long before he came aboard. The airline has never had any "feeder" routes within the continental U.S. to link up with its extensive international network. By contrast, TWA can move passengers in its own planes from Tulsa to Tel Aviv. Even such "domestic" carriers as American, Braniff and Eastern have international routes to the Caribbean, Canada or Latin America. Under Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, now honorary board chairman, the airline took on unprofitable routes in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe at least partly at the behest of the State Department...
...hide the banality of the original theme, and Balanchine's ensemble choreography is often surprisingly distracted and cluttered. On the other hand, Jo Mielziner's nighttime airline setting is one of the City Ballet's best, and the fanciful costumes by Irene Sharaff might give Braniff a few good ideas. For all its frivolity, PAMTGG does display, once more, Balanchine's uncanny skill at catching the aesthetic potential in America's mass culture and at fusing pop dance with ballet. Slightly dated in its style, the dancing of PAMTGG seems to have been inspired...
...traveler, the vast distances between outlying parking lots and terminal buildings. To link a new and distant parking area to its sprawling terminal, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport may install moving sidewalks. One Dallas parking lot is already connected to the terminal by Braniff's "Fastpark Jetrail," a passenger-carrying monorail. Los Angeles is planning an air-cushion vehicle route that by 1973 will link L.A. International Airport and a huge parking space 16 miles away, at the juncture of the San Diego and Ventura freeways. By 1980, air-cushion vehicles will connect Los Angeles with...