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...service throughout the Arab world-where air traffic increases 30% annually (world increase: 13%)-and has no ambitions beyond operating as a feeder service. A second solution for small lines would be to merge with others to form one major international unit along the lines of Scandinavia's SAS, which has enough traffic, capital and competitive know-how to survive...
...singled out Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, which have been trying for years to outdo each other with fancy extras that sell more tickets, as chief purveyors of smorgasbord-type sandwiches on their flights. Samples (from the SAS menu): five slices of ox tongue, a lettuce heart, asparagus and sliced carrots-on a slice of bread; five slices of liver pate, fried crisp bacon, mushrooms and sliced tomato-on a slice of bread. Seconds are available for the asking, and SAS, for one, passes around a tray from which a passenger may take as much...
FIRST POLAR FLIGHTS by U.S. airlines will start this fall. Pan American and T.W.A. will fly over the polar region from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Europe, while Pan Am will also fly via pole from Seattle and Portland, Ore. Scandinavia's SAS now is only line operating over polar route...
From Los Angeles' fog-shrouded airport, a white and silver DC-6B of the Scandinavian Airlines System last week took off on the first scheduled commercial flight to Europe by way of the Arctic. By flying a great circle route, instead of across the continent to New York, SAS cuts the Los Angeles-Copenhagen route by 459 miles and the flying time by 2 hrs. 25 min. (The regular one-way fare of $574 saves the passenger $40; $970 round trip is $70 less.) Cruising at 300 m.p.h. at about 17,000 ft. altitude, SAS made only two stops...
...pioneer its Arctic route,* SAS has invested $600,000 in additional communications equipment and ground facilities. But on pioneering flights, SAS pilots have found the route better flying than the often stormy Atlantic. SAS frankly admits that its new route is a gamble, is well aware that U.S. lines have shied away from it as a money loser. SAS hopes, however, to pick up enough traffic from the West Coast to fill a minimum 22 of its 32 seats, the break-even point...