Word: cabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry M. Switkay, Special Counsel for the CAB. said recently that the airlines asked for fare changes "because their costs have been increasing and their profits going down." The airlines were granted a fare increase in February, 1969, so the CAB made up the new rate per miles travelled formula instead of raising prices across the board again...
...Alitalia last month applied to the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, which has to approve all fares between the U.S. and foreign points, for a $299 ticket price on the Rome-New York run between Nov. 1 and March 31. Last week Pan American and TWA petitioned the CAB for an identical fare. The board is likely to approve. By acting without the consent of the International Air Transport Association, the three lines threatened the whole labyrinthine fare structure and set the stage for a searching reassessment...
...particularly disturbed by abuses of the "affinity rule," which decrees that only members of bona fide organizations can take charter flights. Recently, a group calling itself the "International Order of Old Bastards" arranged a charter trip from the U.S. to Mallorca. Unamused, Pan Am executives complained to the CAB; meanwhile the flight was canceled...
...part, the CAB was so deeply disappointed that it decided to allow bulkfare merchandising only through Dec. 31. After the CAB took that action, Alitalia acted unilaterally to cut fares...
...barber, the waiter, the cab...