Word: gatwick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan (Washington's approval is not required). He requested that his baggage weight limit be lifted from 33 to 44 Ibs., equal to what the larger carriers will offer. To offset the bigger lines' advantage of landing at convenient Heathrow Airport, Laker wants to touch down at Gatwick, which is served by rail (though it is still about 40 minutes from London) and more accessible than the far-off Stansted field, where he first proposed to land. He also wants to sell tickets through travel agents instead of only at airports, and, most important, to operate more than...
...make his armed forces work. It is estimated that nearly half the available foreign exchange goes for military supplies or for tax-free luxuries from Europe to pacify the military. Uganda Airlines (consisting mainly of one Boeing 707 and one Hercules C130) makes regular runs to London's Gatwick Airport to load up on whisky, radios, recorders, cars and other goods for the officers of the 21,000-strong army...
...million. Although he is not one for spartan living himself -he buys a new Rolls-Royce every year and maintains a yacht in Majorca -Laker keeps his business operation lean. A staff of fewer than 20 works out of a modest ten-room block at London's Gatwick Airport, where the boss's own office measures a mere 10 ft. by 12ft...
...strandees at London's Gatwick Airport [Sept. 18] learned what seasoned travelers have long known-in any kind of emergency, one can expect more help from a casual stranger in the street than from the U.S. embassy. If your money has been stolen, you may be lent enough to cable home for more. If it takes a couple of days for the money to come and you have no place to sleep-tough luck! If you have no one to cable to, tougher still...
Britons to the Rescue. Two weeks ago, 122 Americans found themselves stranded for four days at London's Gatwick Airport. The Daedalus Travel Agency in New York, bookers of their charter flight, had failed to provide a plane for the return trip. When the Americans sent a deputation to the U.S. embassy, they were "totally disillusioned," in the words of Ruth Jacobs, a tourist from Queens, N.Y. "The embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel...