Word: secor
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...Atlantic. The scheduled lines have fought back by offering a bewildering variety of excursion packages, and some have resorted to illegal discounting of blocks of tickets to travel agents. Now the CAB is trying to clear up the mess by simply abolishing the affinity rule. Says CAB Chairman Secor Browne: "Low-cost charter availability is taking on the character of a right, which governments are increasingly being expected to protect and promote...
...more drastic step: a boycott of any airport whose government refuses to surrender an airline skyjacker. Unless the United Nations Security Council moves "effectively" against air piracy, the pilots threatened a one-day international shutdown of air service on June 19. In the U.S., Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Secor Browne sympathized with the pilots, but opposed a private boycott on the grounds that "the elimination of skyjacking is the responsibility of governments." He proposed formation of a single national anti-skyjacking authority...
...encouraging the third-levels to take over some of the regional lines' more unprofitable routes and to extend scheduled service into virgin territory. As a small start, CAB Chairman Secor Browne plans to ask Congress next month to authorize a $2,000,000-a-year experimental subsidy program for the scheduled third-levels. In return for subsidies, the lines would serve a number of "remote areas" to be designated by the CAB. If the program works, it will probably be expanded to other communities that lack air service...
...from last year's $25 million and 1970's $85 million loss. Executives of six U.S. airlines that either lost money or made only minor profits last year (American, Eastern, National, Northeast, Pan Am and TWA) expect to do much better in 1972. As CAB Chairman Secor Browne says, "the airlines have essentially turned the corner...
...archcompetitor, TWA, has lately been overtaking "the world's most experienced airline" in monthly passenger miles on the North Atlantic run. Talks with TWA about a possible merger, which Halaby once saw as the best route out of rough weather, have come to a halt. Two weeks ago Secor Browne, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, disclosed that he had sent a memo to White House Presidential Assistant Peter Flanigan, raising the possibility of a Government subsidy or a Lockheed-type guaranteed loan for the ailing carrier...