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ECONOMY FLIGHTS are whopping success on North Atlantic, comprise 45% of Pan Am's traffic, 50% of T.W.A.'s, 73% of Swissair's. One result: tourist class, which costs $315 one way to London v. $252 for economy, may be eliminated...
...would be a shame to have airlines such as Scandinavian Airlines, Swissair, Air France, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines cut down on their high caliber of service (which is typical of European hospitality) in order for Pan American to compete successfully with their version of typical United States hospitality (TIME, April...
...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...
Died. Rudolf Viktor Heberlein, 57, automation-minded board chairman of his family-owned Swiss textile plant, chairman of Swissair's board of directors, who arranged for transportation of 1,253 U.N. troops to Egypt during the November 1956 crisis without disrupting regular schedules; of a heart attack; in Wattwil, Switzerland...
Early one morning last week a Swissair DC-6B set down ten miles from the Suez Canal city of Ismailia. Out of the plane, looking slightly airsick, trooped 45 apple-cheeked young Danish soldiers wearing sky-blue helmet liners and arm bands. Falling them in, 30-year-old 1st Lieut. Axel Bojsen marched his men past a hangar, gutted by British bombers, up to an Egyptian brigadier. "On behalf of the Egyptian armed forces," intoned the brigadier, "I welcome you as guests, as troops of the United Nations Emergency Force...