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1968
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fjJGHT International, 25 April 1968 60S ATLANTIC FAMILY FARES AGREEMENT has been reached by IATA members on the introduction of "family fares," whereby members of a family accompanying the head of the family on North Atlantic flights will be able to take return tickets for the price of the normal single fare. The reduction applies only to travel from Europe to North America, and the scheme has been designed to stimulate traffic to Canada and the USA. It came into operation on April 22, three weeks later than originally expected, owing to a certain amount of dissension among IATA members, many of whom are apprehensive about any further increase in the use of promotional fares. As an example of the savings possible under the scheme, a married couple on a return economy-class journey from London to New York at 14/21-day excursion rates would pay £212 10s, a saving of f 37 10s on the existing lowest economy-class fare. A family of husband, wife, two children between 12 and 22, and one child between two and 12, could make the return trip for £511 18s, against a normal charge of £748 3s. FROM SEA TO AIR COMMON knowledge though it is that the number of North Atlantic passengers carried by air overtook some ten years ago those travelling by sea, the magnitude of the gap always comes as a surprise. In 1967, as the IATA figures in the table below show, nearly 11 times as many crossed by air (eastbound plus westbound) as by sea, whereas 20 years ago twice as many travelled by sea as by air. Nevertheless, except for 1947, when the estimated air-passenger growth rate on 1946 was nearly 100 per cent, the highest but one annual 20-YEAR NORTH ATLANTIC AIR-SEA COMPARISON Year 1948 . 1949 . 1950 . 1951 1952 . 1953 . 1954 . 1955 . 1956 . 1957 1958 . 1959 . I960 . 1961 . 1962 . 1963 . 1964 1965 . 1966 . 1967 . Sea Total passengers (000) 501 652 691 710 844 892 938 962 1,011 1,027 964 881 879 785 820 810 715 649 603 504 % change on previous year +21+30 + 6+ 3 + 19+ 6 + 5+ 3 + 5+ 2 - 6- 9 nil-II + 5- 1 -129 - 6-16 Air Total passengers 273 317 342 448 523 581 692 835 1,019 1,292 1,540 1,929 2,176 2,587 2,836 3,551 4.092 4,700 5,505 °/o change on previous year +21 + 8+ 16 + 8+31 + 17+ 11 + 19+21 +22+27 + 19+25 + 13+ 19 + 10+25 + 15+ 15 + 17 rate of increase recorded was for sea travel; that was the 30 per cent increase recorded in 1949. The air-passenger growth rate exceeded this only in 1952, when tourist fares were intro- duced to give an increase on the previous year of 31 per cent For sea travel there has been only one year since 1957 in which a passenger-number increase was recorded. This was in 1962. The IATA airlines, on the other hand, have recorded increases in every one of the last 20 years. In all but two of these years the increase has exceeded 10 per cent, and 20 per cent has been topped in seven of the years—1948, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1958 (when economy fares were introduced), 1960 and 1964. Tourist-class fares were withdrawn at the end of June 1960 after the number of passengers using this class had dropped from about 740,000 to 64,000 in the two years follow- ing the introduction of economy fares. All-first-class flights— popular in the 1950s with, for instance, BOAC's Monarch and PAA's President Special services, both with Boeing Strato- cruisers—were withdrawn in 1960. EQUIPMENT BUYERS MEET HEADS of purchasing departments of all the major European airlines are at this moment meeting in Rome to discuss common procurement and after-sales service problems between themselves and with equipment manufacturers. Organised by the Committee of Purchasers of Aircraft Materials (CPAM), these conferences take place at six-monthly intervals. The members are not so much concerned with specifying equipment for airline use as in seeing that manufacturers provide the most efficient service and product support for any member airline. When it was formed in 1949, CPAM provided, as it still does, a collective body which carries far more weight than an individual airline. There is a similar organisation in the USA, which has just produced a guide for airline suppliers. This slim booklet lists the various standards which airlines expect from suppliers, whether it be in the matter of delivery dates, contract costs or product support. NEW NAME FOR LYMPNE AFTER nearly 50 years of operating life, Lympne Airport in Kent, the base of Skyways Coach Air, who bought it in 1956, is to be re-named Ashford Airport so as to identify its loca- tion more clearly. The new name will come officially into use after a ceremony early this summer to mark the airport's golden jubilee. Apart from World War II services, Lympne had earlier been the starting point for many record-breaking long-distance flights. After the war, it was, for a time, the centre for Silver City Airways' vehicle-ferry service—the world's first. Until this year it was a grass airfield, but Skyways have laid down a 4,500ft runway which was used for the first time on April 11 when an HS.748 took off with a full load of passengers from the airline and the contractors who had built the runway. -- gnisob/e by Its longer . the DHC Series 200 J»> Otter f, now in J»«w/thto first opera- "'.Western Air Services Jf Puerto R/co, who took pearlier this month. '* principal change is a ° f*r cent increase in %°ge soae, achieved 7 both frontba Sioge com- Produ s ct/on of ,"« 100 has now ^continued
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