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...clipping of IATA'S wings was a direct if delayed result of the "open skies" policy pursued by the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, which in its drive for deregulation encouraged the start of Laker Airways' cut-rate transatlantic Skytrain service as well as the cheap-fare plans that swept the U.S. carriers. The end of administered fares will heat up competition in the briskly growing air-travel market. The IATA carriers' revenues totaled $39.1 billion in 1977, and are expected to climb another 10% this year. But without IATA to coordinate international fare agreements, many lines...
Pacific: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is great whenever he wants to be, a characteristic he holds in common with the extremely talented Los Angeles Laker team. If the Lakers decide to sit back and sun-bathe the season away either Portland (with or without a truckin' Bill Walton), Phoenix (with a healthy Alvan Adams), or Golden State (with the league's best backcourt in Phil Smith and Barry-compensation John Lucas) will win the street fight for king of the West. Seattle is going nowhere without Marvin Webster. San Diego already went somewhere, but the Clippers are still Buffalo to those...
...past year many charter tour operators have been forced out of business by the new, deeply discounted fares. The charter flights (and later the Laker flights) are what forced the reductions. The CAB has refused to protect the public by insisting that all Super Saver-type fares must exist for a specified lifetime (such as a five-year minimum). Once the charters are gone, you will see the discounts disappear quickly, and the airlines will have the public right where they want it paying high fares without the option of the less expensive charter flights...
...Laker ticket office outside London's Victoria Station, 1,500 young people queued up for days to buy tickets to New York. As shown in the photo on the facing page, they slept on the sidewalk under makeshift plastic tents while it rained all week. On Thursday, with conditions worsening every hour, the British Civil Aviation Authority moved. The strict regulations rationing sales of low-fare tickets were bent, allowing airlines to use up their August, September and October stand-by quotas now in order to get stranded Americans home. Still, it will take weeks to move...
...would pump away a sweltering midsummer week in Iowa, when beaches and lakes and Laker beckon? Just about anyone, according to TIME'S Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, who monitored the cornbelt caravan, part of it on a borrowed ten-speed Gitane bike. The Ragbrai army, he reports, comes from all over the U.S. and from every way of life and income bracket. On the road, its members fall into five loose categories...