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Airways Fare: Ten National Networks, All Parts of the Pattern Within Europe, ten na-onal lines—or groups of lines—in addition to certain routes of the Big Seven, re commonly used by travelers and I shall list them, by national allegiance, in iphabetical order.
1. British services include, beside BOAC, four other companies, the huge and itricate British European airways fare (BEA), a system of great spread, Cyprus irways, an important Mediterranean associate, Gibraltar airways fare, useful in rossing the Straits to Tangier, and Malta airways fare, for flights from Rome to [alta.Aquila airways fare, Eagle Wings to Warmth One of the few flying Boat air systems now in popular use anywhere is Aquila airways fare and one of the most glamorous flying experiences to be had in European air is to board one of its ships and fly from Southampton to warm southern ports. It has long had a service to those fabulous islands Madeira and the Canaries group, and in 1954 it opened a new line to Marseille and on to Capri. I have yet to take the Southampton-Capri flight but I have flown the Madeira route.
To our home-grown colossus, Pan American airways fare, goes the major part of the credit for early leadership in initiating and pushing through this modern development, which has revolutionized air travel to Europe since 1952. Overcoming many obstacles and waging a historic battle (widely reported in the press) to assuage international fears and doubts about instituting the low-fare tourist tariffs, it finally won its war and its point, and giving the name Rainbow to its own tourist services, it opened the doors of Europe literally to millions of Americans with only two or three weeks of vacation a year and with moderate incomes or holiday nest eggs. Teachers, students, government girls, receptionists and secretaries, middle-income office workers, whole families whose wildest thoughts had never encompassed seeing London, Paris, Rome and all between, were suddenly dazzled by the shiny new thought that this could be. The plan was worked out in cooperative spirit through general agreements to the benefit of all air systems and of all prospective travelers interested in stretching their vacation dollars. In April, 1954, as I have said, PAA introduced the first complete round-the-world tourist service, at a fare of only $1347.85. This world-girdling bargain provided a "box-office sensation" that capped a 12-month record of carrying nearly 900,000 passengers in tourist class, this being more than half of its total of 1,650,-000. |
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