Word: charterers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours before Tass, the official news agency, reported the disaster, and still another 18 hours before Pravda covered it in twelve lines on its back page. The Soviets had to acknowledge the tragedy because there were 38 Chileans and five Algerians aboard the flight, which had begun as a charter from Paris; if no foreigners had been involved, the crash might never have been reported. News of the Sochi disaster leaked out only after Aeroflot sent letters of sympathy, and symbolic, empty urns to the victims' next of kin, along with 300 rubles ($333) each in compensation. The Soviet...
...Trans International, Overseas National and World are names that could soon become vacation bywords. They are the three biggest of the eleven U.S. supplemental air carriers that operate both at home and abroad on a nonscheduled basis. Now that the Civil Aeronautics Board has given the go-ahead for charter lines to reach beyond "affinity" groups and compete against regularly scheduled carriers for business from individual travelers (TIME, Oct. 9), the nonskeds are planning a big campaign to promote mass, low-cost air travel...
There may be something of a delay before the plan takes off. The scheduled carriers are preparing to ask the courts to rescind the CAB'S decision. The ruling, they say, violates the law forbidding charter lines to sell tickets to individuals. In addition, the U.S. must negotiate with foreign governments for landing rights covering the new class of service, called Travel Group Charters (TGC). Negotiations with some nations should be relatively smooth and simple. But some governments, including France, Switzerland and The Netherlands, are wary of subjecting their national airlines to further low-priced competition, particularly...
Nevertheless, TGC, or something like it, is not likely to be grounded for very long. Low-cost charter flights on both scheduled and nonscheduled lines have been available to just about anybody in Europe for nearly a decade, enabling millions of middle-and low-income people who could not otherwise afford air travel to jet off to vacation spots at amazingly low package rates. Typical enticements: Londoners can buy a threeday, all-expense trip to Moscow this winter for $71 or spend four days on the Costa Brava in Spain for $34; Danes can fly to Rome for a week...
Protect & Promote. In the U.S., charter bargains have theoretically been restricted to groups of lodge brothers or other affinity organizations. That rule led to the proliferation of groups aptly described by San Francisco Tour Operator Jack Aufricht as "bowling clubs that charter 40 airplanes a year and have one bowling game." Over the past decade, charter flights have increased from 10% to 22% of all air traffic across the Atlantic. The scheduled lines have fought back by offering a bewildering variety of excursion packages, and some have resorted to illegal discounting of blocks of tickets to travel agents...