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...Sabena Flight 517 from Brussels to Tel Aviv was 20 minutes out of Vienna last week when two Arabs waving pistols rushed the cockpit. "As you can see," Captain Reginald Levy calmly informed his 90 passengers, "we have friends aboard." The friends-the men and two women, who produced explosives from under their skirts-were members of a Palestinian guerrilla organization called Black September.* Their audacious plan: to land the Boeing 707 at Tel Aviv and embarrass Israel by threatening to blow up the plane on a Lod Airport runway unless 317 imprisoned fedayeen were released...
...small matter. Alitalia, KLM, Lufthansa and Sabena have appealed for preservation of duty-free shops, which are a source of considerable income for the airports. Also worried is British Railways, which operates ferries that carry 6,000,000 travelers across the English Channel every year. These tourists are such eager spenders that British Railways is building new ships with on-board duty-free "supermarkets" so capacious that passengers will be given self-service shopping carts to push around...
...longer willing to be locked out of this lucrative trade, other West European airlines are pressing for landing rights in West Berlin. Alitalia, SAS and KLM have been particularly active, but Sabena and Swissair have also put out feelers. Much to the consternation of Pan Am, the U.S. is willing to welcome additional carriers, but Britain is so far unwilling to agree...
...incitement to youthful wanderlust this year is the greatest price-cutting war in airline history. It has created youth fares so enticing that the youngsters can hardly afford to stay home. Ever since Belgium's Sabena, whose transatlantic 747s had been running only 11% full, offered a $220 round trip to Belgium for almost anyone under 30, other lines have rushed to meet or beat that bargain. A youth-fare passenger on Sabena can fly only to and from Brussels, but on some other lines he can now mix and match. Pan Am. for example, allows a person...
...agreed upon unanimously by the 108 members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), with the result that the least efficient, highest-cost carrier sometimes vetoes lower fares. The only exception to the unanimity rule occurs when an airline is "ordered" by its government to make a fare change. Sabena recently used that loophole to introduce the youth fares...