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FLIGHT
International, 19 December
• Down come IATA's transatlantic!
fares, thanks to the US Civil Aeronaul
Board.
When are European air fares going!
come down ? Apart from promotional fa!
which are cheaper if you are prepared!
fly after 0300hr between Potters Bar J
Keflavik, the general fare level is no I
today than it was six years ago. In EuroJ
airlines get into pool and then fall asla
How about some fare cuts, BEA?
News Flash: Our European Fare Increa
Correspondent reports:—This week's pi
posed fare increase, proposed siml
taneously by BEA and their obsequiol
independent "competitors," is on the roul
to the Channel Islands, on which fares wa
shoved up 10-20 per cent only last April.l
"Are You All Right?"—No 29
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
and a
happy and prosperous New Year
to you all.
•
"With the VC10 BOAC moves a clear
six years ahead of any other airline"—
BOAC.
A British United Airways spokesman
comments: "**??*!!*!"
•
What should you give for Christmas ? As
usual, Flight Falsies has just the answers.
For the Minister of Aviation: a set of six
inflatable plastic British Air Chiefs for
running troublesome State airlines; White
Paper Tokens . . . you've heard of book
tokens, gift tokens, record tokens. This
latest Flight Falsies idea entitles him to a
White Paper costing £20,000, £40,000,
£80,000 or £120,000, covering all crises that
are likely to arise while he's in office.
Delays of 16, 32 or 64 months arranged: or
a micro-miniaturized memo pad measuring
6mm x 4mm for jotting down the name of
that intercontinental ballistic missile he's
been meaning to cancel all week.
For your Favourite Aircraft Manufacturer:
A brochure with specious claims knocking
* The incident occurred at Dewinton Airfield,
near Calgary, Alberta, in 1942. The unit concerned was 31 EFTS of the RAF. The Tiger
Moth was rather bent but the pupil pilot was,
I am happy to say, none the Worse.
[Yes, everyone was]*
the brochure with specious claims that
knocked his own product and which was
put out by his rivals. Or was it put out by
your favourite aircraft manufacturer himself? Why will people try to commercialize
Christmas so?
•
"His aircraft had a fully automatic, selfcontained navigation system so he should be
able to tell us exactly where he was when his
engines failed. We should get a letter from
him any day now."
Eyeball to Eyeball—No I
in a new series. At
BALPA's cocktail party on
December 4: left. Sir
Myles Wyatt, chairman of
British United Airways;
right, Sir Matthew Slattery,
chairman of BOAC
• Press report: "Barely two minutes fro
zero came the message that the missile coil
not be released. The missile, Britain's Bl
Streak stand-off bomb, was to have ba
fired from the aircraft at the secret tarj
away in the desert. Apparently there was
minor technical hitch."
•
Mr George Keck, executive
president and general manager of Unit!
Air Lines:—
"It seems premature that serious conside
ation be given at this time to ordering a supe
sonic airplane of unknown characteristics,
fact, United Air Lines has never ordered m
planes without having basic facts available ft
appraisal and evaluation.'"
I asked Sir Charles Boost for his con
ments on this statement. Boomed
Charles: " I don't know why you woiil
expect me to comment on a statement 1
that, laddie. The man has obviously take
complete leave of his senses."