Word: lufthansa
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...world airline industry, bound to gether in the 108-member International Air Transport Association, has been setting air fares for the past 26 years with only an occasional break in its façade of comfortable unanimity. All that will likely end this week. West Germany's Lufthansa has been the sole holdout against a new scale of North Atlantic air fares, and IATA has given the "Route of the Red Baron" until Sept. 1 to go along. If, as expected, Lufthansa refuses to reconsider, IATA members will be without a common rate package...
...dictated the price of international air travel for 26 years, but by the time the meeting adjourned last week, it was no longer dictating. It had managed to work out a complex compromise, and the agreement may come apart before the summer ends. The West German state-owned airline Lufthansa ("The Route of the Red Baron") was not happy with the new fares, and unless the line changes its mind by Sept. 1, an unprecedented air-fare war might well break out over North Atlantic routes...
...Montreal, the West Germans argued that the new fares, especially APEX, would only add confusion to the tangle of transatlantic fares already in effect. Lufthansa officials also claimed that they want to lower some rates even below those now proposed by I.A.T.A. Should the high basic rates of scheduled carriers remain in effect, however, Lufthansa is in a strong position to become a major charter carrier. Its charter subsidiary Condor was the first such firm to buy a Boeing 747 jetliner, and it will soon have a second...
While West Germany's Lufthansa was stonewalling over proposed new transatlantic air fares, another long-established pattern was being challenged in one of the world's more profitable aviation markets: the divided city of Berlin. In this case, the initiative came from East Germany, which eagerly wants more passengers to use East Berlin's Schonefeld Airport and is making its bid at a time when Four-Power negotiations on the status of the city appear to be on the verge of success (see THE WORLD...
German workers have a well-earned reputation for zeal and discipline, but even they hate the time clock. Recognizing that, a growing number of employers, including the national airline Lufthansa, are giving some of their employees freedom to punch in, within broad limits, any time they choose in the morning and punch out when they please in the afternoon, as long as they continue to put in a required number of hours each month...