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...that bargain. A youth-fare passenger on Sabena can fly only to and from Brussels, but on some other lines he can now mix and match. Pan Am. for example, allows a person of 25 or less to fly to one European city and return from another. Irish-Aer Lingus offers the widest choice of all -four different cities. The deal: fly into one Continental city, return from another, and stop over in Dublin or Shannon both coming and going...
...According to TIME, "even Ireland's little Aer Lingus has asked for two 400-seat versions for jampacked all-economy flights...
...Lingus is, in fact, the European arm of our company. It is Aerlinte, our transatlantic division, best known in North America as Irish International Airlines, that has two 747s on order. We rank ninth among the 19 IATA carriers on the North Atlantic in terms of traffic carried during the eleven months to Nov. 30, 1969. Since the Boeing 747 can, as you pointed out, be fitted with up to 490 seats, a 400-seater should hardly be called a jampacked version. In fact, our intention is to have 24 first-class seats and 348 economy seats...
Irish International Airlines-Aer Lingus Manhattan...
...Nothing hampers the progress of civil aviation more than fear," says Jeremiah Dempsey, general manager of Ireland's Aer Lingus. The other side of the equation is that, as planes become safer, more people will become less fearful and will fly. Since 1962, the proportion of Americans who have been up in a plane has climbed from 33% to 38% . But as more people fly, the casualty toll will climb too-unless the one-in-a-million chance of accident can be cut still lower...