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...People Express, is now offering low fares from coast to coast and on hundreds of routes in between. The attractive price of tickets has encouraged more people to take more flights to more places than ever. Travelers who used to ride the bus or drive are hopping a plane. See ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...police had first assumed, but instead were plotting a grand spectacle of murder and revenge. They were evidently hoping to take a number of people at the airport hostage, commandeer an El Al jetliner and order it flown to Tel Aviv where, along with an El Al plane seized simultaneously by their accomplices in Rome, they would destroy the aircraft and everyone on board. The action was to have been in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of P.L.O. headquarters in Tunis last Oct. 1. That attack killed some 70 people and wounded more than...
...when she sent a letter in 1982 to then Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, asking that the superpowers work toward a more peaceful world. After Andropov responded by inviting her to visit the Soviet Union, Samantha Smith became America's youngest goodwill ambassador. Even before her tragic death in a plane crash last August, the Soviet press had portrayed Smith as a symbol of peace-loving American people at odds with the policies of their Government. In the U.S.S.R., a diamond, a flower, a street, a poem and a book have already been named in her honor. Now comes a Samantha...
Unless they buy tickets through a travel agency, passengers do not generally pay for their seats until they get on the plane. During the flight, attendants come down the aisle collecting fares. They accept cash, credit cards, traveler's checks, money orders and personal checks (if the passenger writes a credit card or passport number on the back...
People passengers can make a telephone reservation, but that is no guarantee of a seat. Reason: the airline often gives out reservations to more customers than it has room for on a plane. Seats are assigned at the airport on a first-come, first-served basis to passengers with reservations. Veteran People flyers arrive at least an hour in advance to make sure they can get on board. Customers with reservations who are denied a seat are entitled to compensation: generally a place on a later flight and a free ticket good for a future round trip...