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...industry's rate-fixing cartel, actually decided to continue fares at present levels through the rest of 1973-with certain adjustments to reflect recent rejiggering of currency-exchange ratios. For Americans paying for their tickets in devalued dollars, prices will thus rise an average 6%, boosting the round-trip cost of the cheapest scheduled New York-London flight this summer to $332, up $19 from last year...
...impasse also dims the scheduled lines' hopes of slowing or stopping a drain of passengers to the cut-rate charter flights offered by the nonscheduled carriers. Last week one such line was advertising two-to-four-week round-trip fares between New York and London for as little as $179 in peak season. The scheduled lines had hoped that their new advance-fare service would enable them to come closer to meeting those prices, while also allowing them to plan operations so that they could cut costs by flying fully loaded planes. But weeks of effort...
...week, single-ticket, group tours to Europe and the Caribbean for residents of 16 cities served by Allegheny. Customers fly from their home towns via Allegheny to a major "gateway," like New York or Boston, then board a Pan Am plane for the overseas hop. Sample price: $310 round-trip plus at least $70 for ground accommodations from Dayton to London for one week, v. as much as $520 economy air fare alone for Dayton-New York and New York-London tickets purchased separately. In addition, Pan Am clerks in London, Paris and Rome will act as Allegheny ticket agents...
...resulting journeys can be grim. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress recently took such a trip, organized by the London-based Park Lane Travel agency, from Paris to New York. His round-trip fare was $250 v. $504 for the lowest-priced comparable trip on a scheduled airline. He was issued a voucher that he was to present at the Park Lane offices in Manhattan when he wanted to return, a common practice among consolidators. The Paris-New York trip took a torturous 26 hours-partly because the flight left not from Paris but from Frankfurt, Germany, to which Ress was hauled...
...striking at phony charters by requiring most charter passengers to produce round-trip tickets before they leave-a rule that prevents consolidators from selling vouchers that may or may not be honored. A crackdown by British authorities has sharply cut the number of flights by British supplemental lines, which had been active in booking questionable charters for U.S. consolidators. As a result, some of New York City's biggest consolidators have abruptly gone out of business, and many of their customers, caught in the U.S. or Europe with return-trip vouchers, have had to find other means of getting...