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Chances that travelers flying the North Atlantic on scheduled airlines will pay sharply lower fares this summer hit a hard downdraft last week. The U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board turned down proposals from British Overseas Airways, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Olympic Airways for new low fares between the U.S. and Europe. BOAC, for example, had wanted to charge only $179 for a New York-London round trip during the off season, and $290 during July. The fares would have been for a 14-to-45-day excursion booked 90 days before takeoff...
...took options on seven of the stiletto-nosed Concordes, Pan Am gave word that it was canceling out. Minutes later, Trans World Airlines released a statement that management would recommend that the directors let TWA's six options expire. Next day in West Germany, a spokesman said that Lufthansa has no intention of picking up its three Concorde options unless the plane is drastically redesigned. It is likely that Continental Airlines will also let its three places in the Concorde production line lapse next month, as will American with its six reservations, leaving Eastern and Braniff as the only...
...skyjackers, who were determined not to release the Lufthansa plane or its passengers until the released prisoners were safely in Libya, refused to accept any arrangement. Instead, they ordered Claussen to keep flying over Yugoslavia until the prisoners landed in Zagreb. Fuel ran so low that the captain had to cut off two of his three engines; if the third one shut down, the terrorists warned, they would simply blow up the plane...
...serious," he radioed at one point. "They really mean it. Get on with it, man." Later he implored: "Will you believe me that they've got it set in their heads that their three comrades come on board my plane without anybody being released?" Aloft over West Germany, Lufthansa's Culmann finally decided that the situation represented a "supra-legal emergency." Without consulting Bonn, he ordered the pilot of the Hawker Siddeley to fly to Zagreb and agreed to make the exchange on Arab terms. Moments after his plane touched down, the terrorists allowed Claussen to land...
...generally they do not take as extreme a line as the Israelis. But they believe that the problem can only be solved if all nations agree that skyjacking is a crime and pledge to extradite or prosecute offenders. "As long as there are countries granting these people asylum," says Lufthansa Pilot Heino Caesar, "the problem will be with...