Word: pan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While American was ahead with the ads, most of the ten airlines that have ordered a total of 81 of the whalelike Boeings (at $20 million each) have expansive notions about how to compart them. Pan American is pondering whether to put a piano bar aboard. TWA is contemplating a cocktail lounge and a nursery for children. To make room for such amenities, the airlines will sacrifice payload. Though designed with a 490-seat capacity, the 747s due for delivery starting in 1969 will actually carry from 340 to 390 passengers...
...Pan Am's new deal is a special 14-to-21-day round-trip fare for groups of ten or more persons who need share no affinity other than a yen to fly to the same vacation spot at about one-half the normal rate. Under the group plan, for example, the New York-London round trip would cost $230 compared with the $399 off-season and the $484.50 summertime economy fares. Unlike Pan Am's $300 excursion fare, which does not apply on weekends or during peak summer weeks, the group fare would be good...
...Pan Am will start selling the group fares on Jan. 1, pending approval by CAB, which is almost certain, and the foreign governments involved, which is not: some may decide that the plan will steal traffic away from their own national airlines. At week's end though, BOAC, Air-India and Scandinavian Air lines System said that they were willing to match Pan Am's deal; other airlines will try to push through an industry wide plan along the same lines, at a meeting of the rate-setting International Air Transport Association in Rome next week...
...nine of the biggest, led by World Airways of Oak land, Calif., have CAB permission to charter planes for all-expense, "inclusive tours" outside the U.S. They will be set up by travel agents and sold to all comers at a package price that could be cheaper than the Pan Am plan...