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...suddenly found himself in need of service and spare parts to get a grounded Boeing back on line. Part of the fuselage wiring in a 707 cargo plane that British Caledonian was operating under lease from another company shorted out and caught fire during loading at Britain's Gatwick Airport outside London and had to be replaced before the plane could fly. Boeing sent in a "recovery crew" from Seattle, which took on the job like a team of open-heart surgeons. Not only did each man know exactly what he had to do, but the team...
BRITAIN The British press dubbed them the "Terminal Children." Thousands of North Americans waited for up to a week at Heathrow and Gatwick airports to get cheap seats, either on Laker Airways or other lines that offer a limited number of stand-by fares...
...cause of hygiene," boomed the p.a. at Gatwick, "we ask that waiting passengers not leave their cups and cutlery on the floor." Gatwick's beige linoleum quickly disappeared under a carpet of bright beach blankets and polyester sleeping bags. Bodies were everywhere-standing, sitting, lying on the floor. The wait for toilets was 20 minutes and for a cup of tea, half an hour. The gift shop sold out of men's disposable underwear; deodorant and razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto...
...battle left Braniff stranded. On March 1, it flew a 747 loaded with celebrities to Britain for what it had planned as a gala inauguration of its new run be tween London and Dallas-Fort Worth. The Life Guards band turned out at Gatwick airport to serenade the orange jumbo jet with The Yellow Rose of Texas. But the British government would not let Braniff fly passengers back to the U.S. at the new low fares, and the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board refused to let Braniff charge the high fares. Result: the plane flew back with its nonpaying passengers...
...pilot and made his first coup in 1948 supplying planes to the Berlin airlift, runs a strict, no-frills operation on the ground as well as in the air. Headquarters of the line-which up to now has mostly operated charter flights-are stuffed into four floors of a Gatwick hangar, and there are no elevators. The line has just four directors, including Laker, who have only to shout down the hall to one another to make decisions. Says Freddie, who is gambling with his own money (he owns 90% of Laker stock; his wife owns the rest): "There...