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...flights instead of cold chicken-and free drinks. Club-class seats, though, are the same size as in the economy class. Fares will be 25% to 40% cheaper than first-class fares, but 9% to 13% costlier than economy fares. Between London and Rome, for instance, the most expensive round-trip ticket will fall from $1,180 for the old first class to $741 for club class (vs. $653 for economy). Club-class passengers will be separated from economy travelers by a portable curtain. This device enables the airline to shrink or expand the size of the club cabin according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cutting Frills | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Despite inevitable frictions, both sides can point to significant achievements as a result of normalization of relations. Six round-trip airline flights a week now connect Cairo and Tel Aviv-three by El Al and three by Nefertiti Airways, a makeshift airline designed to protect EgyptAir from possible boycotts at Arab airports. Numerous accords have been signed in commerce, technical-exchange, land transport and cultural-affairs programs. Israel has sold Egypt $12 million worth of goods, ranging from bananas to iron ore. Egypt, in turn, has sold Israel $500 million in oil-a quarter of its production-and has picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Dancing an Uncertain Tango | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...round-trip truck and bus for space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk Run To the Heavens | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...second. Barring the reality of flying saucers, Columbia is the most ambitious and versatile spacecraft ever contrived. Heretofore, space explorers have had to blast payloads into the heavens with rockets that later burned up, falling back to earth in showers of shrinking fragments. The shuttle will honor round-trip reservations, going up and coming down intact, not once, but time and time again, if all goes well, reducing the cost of working in space and vastly increasing its possibilities. Columbia is designed to ascend like a rocket, orbit as an all-purpose freight truck and passenger bus, ward off melting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk Run To the Heavens | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...recession is partly to blame for tourist troubles in Hawaii, but the primary problem is the high cost of airfares. In the past 18 months, the price of a tourist-class round-trip ticket between Honolulu and San Francisco, some 2,400 miles away, has soared 75%, to $504. The remoteness that had always been Hawaii's allure is now its burden. Laments Edward Sullivan, managing director of the Hyatt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Storm Clouds over Paradise | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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