Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order highlighted a recent trend: U.S. lines are continuing to buy American-made planes, while some big non-American carriers are starting to switch to the Airbus. Historically, Air France and Lufthansa bought Boeing but, although they continue to acquire 747s, neither line has ordered any of the new mid-range Boeings since the Airbus A310 was introduced. Among the reasons: Airbus is more fuel efficient than the 767 for trips under 500 miles and better suited to shorter European distances. Except for the planes that it sold to Eastern two years ago, Airbus has yet to crack...
...week vacation at Brenner's Park Hotel in Baden-Baden, West Germany, where health spa and beauty farm facilities are available and a Mercedes limosine will be on hand. To take the strain out of the trip to Germany, Sakowitz will reserve the entire first class section of a Lufthansa Airlines 747. The recipient of this gift will be the only person up front in the plane and the first on and off. For one person, the cost of the trip is $55,922. Excluding the exclusive air transportation expense, the price drops to a mere...
...inspectors, including Egon Ronay, flew each of the airlines three times, on day and night flights. They traveled economy class. (Not included in the survey, because they do not have direct U.K.-North America service, were Air France, Lufthansa and Alitalia.) Each airline was graded according to 14 criteria, with an optimum of 100%, ranging from in-flight announcements to the selection of magazines and newspapers aboard. The score...
...Zurich's Kloten airport for a flight that ended, uneventfully, 4% hours later in Tel Aviv. Almost simultaneously, many more of the U.S.-built, tri-engine wide-bodies were taxiing to runways all over Europe. By week's end 13 European lines, including such prestigious carriers as Lufthansa, SAS, Alitalia and KLM, had put their 58 DC-10s back into the air. Though their decision brought cheers from the plane's beleaguered manufacturer, McDonnell Douglas, it was a blow to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. After the May 25 Chicago crash of a DC-10 that took...
...Schmidt acted coolly and shrewdly. First of all, he had the sense not to call army troops out into the streets, which would have alarmed Germans and other Europeans alike. When he did use troops, in 1977, it was to launch the dramatic commando raid that rescued a hijacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu...