Word: laker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gracefully served, which is not always true on the airline's domestic flights. High praise goes to "the smiling Irish eyes" of Aer Lingus' stewardesses, though the non-Hibernian meals would be rejected at the lowliest Dublin pub. The guide also has high praise for Sir Freddie Laker and his pioneering, price-cutting Skytrain, "the most exciting development on the hitherto complacent transatlantic travel scene." The crews are smart and thoughtful, the meals attractively priced. "But, alas," reports Ronay, "it's the familiar story of dry meat, tasteless, watery vegetables, gray potatoes or a new horror, rubbery...
...Delta 57% Braniff 69% Air Canada 58% Aer Lingus 66% TWA 56% Laker 65% British Cal. 54% N.W. Orient 62% National 52% Pan American 59% Air India 37% Iran Air 58% Brit. Airways...
ENGLAND. Sir Freddie Laker will get you to London for only $135 from New York City ($199 from Los Angeles), but the bargain stops there. Only stylites, vegetarians and teetotalers are likely to find affordable food and lodging in the capital these days (though first-rate theater tickets cost $10 or less). The answer is to take off for the incomparable countryside, its glowing market towns and villages, cathedrals, festivals?and friendly inns, pubs and restaurants...
Only 65 Airbuses are in service, but the consortium has 177 firm orders and 93 options from 21 airlines. It also has strong prospects for further buys from carriers that are not now customers, including Air Afrique, Britain's Laker Airways and Japan's domestic TOA. Lathière insists that present customers alone assure the consortium of the 360 sales it needs to break even on the A300, the 251-to 336-seat prime Airbus model...
...cast is a sparkling credit to the British National Theater, who have here exported some of their plethora of talent. You do not have to take Sir Freddie Laker's no-frills flights to see London's finest, and the laughs are nonstop. -T.E. Kalem