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Every Friday morning, Pakistan International Airlines flight 750, a Boeing 720 jet, takes off from Dacca in East Pakistan and heads for Shanghai-the only major flight by a non-Communist airline into Red China. PIA has been making the run for three months, charging $428 for economy class round trip, and so profitable has it turned out to be that the airline is adding a second weekly flight. The Chinese Communists are using the Pakistani planes to open the door, at least a tantalizing crack, to Western business and tourist dollars...
...ambitious helicopter service is the latest of a series of breakthroughs by Pakistan's small but surprisingly strong and aggressive airline. Playing both sides of the Sino-Soviet split, PIA this summer became the first foreign airline (besides Russia's Aeroflot) to gain landing rights in Red China, and the first foreign airline to win the right to fly through Moscow on the Europe-to-Asia...
Founded as a nationalized company in 1955 from the remnants of a rundown private airline, PIA ran up heavy financial losses and a horrendous safety record until Field Marshal Ayub Khan, after coming to power in 1958, installed a Pakistan Air Force commodore as PIA's boss. Commodore Nur Khan (no kin) fired seven senior captains, enforced strict discipline and turned PIA into one of the few nationalized airlines that make a profit. Khan gets no government subsidy and brooks no government meddling, runs PIA with a maximum of free enterprise...
...part of the world where domestic airline service is often shoddy, Khan dressed his stewardesses in fetching shalwar pantaloons, improved the service and the food. One of the few world-airline chiefs who can fly his own jets -and sometimes does-Khan has increased PIA's fleet to 20 planes and extended routes until they now stretch from Rangoon to New York. But he is proudest of PIA's vital role in linking Pakistan's divided nation-separated by 1,000 miles of India-and in bringing the advantage of modern transportation to a backward land. "Just...
There the moppets find them. The first to arrive are Fanny's two youngest-Caddie, 11, and Hugh, 14-who have run away from England determined to bring Mommy home. They are joined by Pia, Rob's ten-year-old daughter by a former marriage. The rest of the novel recounts the precocious intrigues by which the three children try to break up the romance and restore their respective parents to their proper homes...