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...biggest jolt for Americans who plan to travel extensively abroad is the cost of intra-European airplane tickets and the use of a car. The tourist who has flown from New York City to London for $138 finds that he must pay $575 for a round-trip economy flight from England to Athens. In Germany, where the visitor might expect to rent a small Mercedes-Benz 200 for a reasonable sum, he will find that it costs $82.60 a day, plus 30? per kilometer, plus gas, which can cost $1.75 per gal. on an autobahn. Obviously, the U.S. tourist needs...
Freddie Laker, the poor man's Pegasus, is walking on air. His Laker Airways' no-frills Skytrain, a bold gamble to lure passengers between New York and London with a pinchpenny round-trip fare of $245, is paying off like the Irish Sweepstakes. After seven months of operation, an ebullient Laker reported last week...
...both sides of the Atlantic for bargain prices on other routes. The CAB has let it be known that it will approve almost any low-fare offer. Says one CAB official: "The doors are open"-and airlines are walking through. KLM, the Dutch airline, has just proposed a $332 round-trip fare from New York to Amsterdam to start late this month; Iceland's airline is seeking a Chicago-Luxembourg fare of $295 and a New York-Luxembourg price of $275. Surely Freddie Laker has started a movement that will spread and rise...
...travelers between New York and London now have 17 fares to choose from-more or less. More, because including charter rates increases the number; less, because some of the scheduled-airline fares apply only at certain times of the year. In the following rundown of round-trip fares, the first is offered by Laker alone; the rest have been authorized for the six other and much bigger lines flying the route (Air-India, British Airways, El Al, Iran...
These plans are only the latest salvos in the air-fare war. This month Pan Am, TWA and some foreign flag carriers will begin offering New York-London cut-rate fares that compete with the $236 round-trip Skytrain shuttle designed by Britain's upstart Laker Airways. Within the U.S., airlines have been announcing a profusion of cheap fares since last April; that was when American Airlines set off the bargain binge by offering advance-booked coast-to-coast flights at a "supersaver" round-trip fare of $231, which is 45% under the standard economy rate. Other carriers have...