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Perhaps Greek Shipowner-Financier-Oilman Aristotle Onassis, 59, has found his greatest métier. At Paris' Orly Airport last week, he snipped a ceremonial ribbon at the boarding ramp of the blue and white Boeing 707 jet inaugurating the transatlantic service of his Olympic Airways. He even bore...
Nothing thrills Onassis more than profits, and he wants to get an Aristotelian share from the rich North Atlantic airline routes. Counting Olympic, 21 scheduled airlines will be dogfighting this year for some $800 million in revenues from an expected 4,100,000 passengers. Longtime No. 1 Pan American last...
Flying Cash Registers. To get his own flying cash registers into the air, Onassis has steered Olympic along a characteristic route. He bought the bankrupt line from the government in 1957, added new equipment and turned his first profit in 1963. Then, by threatening to pull out of the airline...
Last year he tried to get a government guarantee for a $30 million loan to buy Olympic's three transatlantic 707s. That fell with the Papandreou government. Instead, Olympic got generous credits from Boeing, which figured that Onassis the shipowner was security enough for Onassis the airline owner. Still...
Nothing Spartan. Having gone to so much trouble to get his daily flights to and from New York and Athens, Onassis was not about to offer spartan service. Besides such now routine frills as in-flight movies and nine-channel stereo, the planes feature stewardesses in Chanel-designed uniforms, dinners...