Word: sabena
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four of Western Europe's biggest airlines was finally cleared for takeoff. At the urging of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a reluctant Charles de Gaulle gave Air France the green light to begin negotiating final terms with its proposed partners: Germany's Lufthansa, Belgium's Sabena and Italy's Alitalia. When Air Union at last comes into existence, it will boast more aircraft (322) than Pan Am (123) and TWA (160) combined and will fly an estimated 350,000 route miles, v. 93,000 for the two U.S. overseas giants...
...retain their own names, their separate flight operations and maintenance facilities. But they will pool their finances, dividing up all earnings according to a formula that reflects both present shares of traffic and growth records. Initially Air France will get 34% of the take, Lufthansa 30%, Alitalia 26% and Sabena 10%. Sales organizations will be combined, and each Air Union line will pass on to one of its partners any business it cannot handle itself. An executive committee will coordinate routes and timetables to eliminate costly overlapping service. Eventually the Air Union members expect to buy new planes jointly, which...
...Flemings still see all sorts of injustices, complain, for instance, that they have only 13 of Belgium's 83 diplomatic jobs abroad. While Brussels is officially bilingual from its street signs down to its liquor labels, French is preferred by the majority. One Fleming complained to Sabena Airlines not long ago because its sugar lumps were labeled sucre, but not suiker...
Though Van der Beugel will probably get the money, his appeal is KLM's biggest break yet with its tradition of stubborn independence. An even greater break may be in the making. Four years ago, the principal Common Market airlines-Lufthansa, Air France, Alitalia and Belgium's Sabena-began to discuss pooling of their resources in a European Air Union in order to compete more effectively with Pan Am, TWA, and other international lines. KLM walked out after the first meetings in disgust at its proposed share of the combined revenues. But Dutch parliamentarians are unlikely...
Belgian government has said nothing, it is an open secret in Washington that when Sabena's 707 nosed up sharply and fell in a whirling stall, its controls were found locked in full nose-up position...