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...travel section under the catchall division, "Promotion News," and uses great gobs of free publicity copy. Stanton Delaplane, whose travel column is syndicated even more widely than Horace Sutton's, insists on paying his own hotel bills-but demands a 25% commercial discount in the U.S. A CAB ruling prohibits airlines from letting newsmen fly free on scheduled flights, but some travel editors evade the ruling by selling "reprint rights" of their articles to the airlines for the price of the fare-plus a few extra dollars to make the transaction look better. The airlines sometimes exercise the reprint...
...last great frontier of airline expansion," a CAB examiner recommended last week that National and Delta get new transcontinental routes across the southern tier of states. To National go routes from Florida to California; Delta will fly from Atlanta to California...
...CAB has followed this policy of granting rich routes to ailing lines before, hoping to cure their trouble. But it has not always worked. Four years ago, CAB allowed Northeast to join Eastern and National on the blue-ribbon New York-Miami run. For the two lines the route had been profitable, but when Northeast also began flying it, all three lines suffered. National was $1,000,000 in the red during the past nine months...
...persuaded California Democratic Senator Clair Engle and Mississippi Democratic Representative John Bell Williams to introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting to pass it off under the guise...
...firm hand has helped make U.S. aviation smoother and better-run. Says Eastern Air Lines President Malcolm MacIntyre: "A.L.P.A. used to be one of the loudest complainers about not being able to get decisions under the old setup. Now it wants FAA decisions to be subject to CAB review. That's a sure way to get no decisions...