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...five months of 1970, the little line's passenger volume increased 41%, to a record 71,500 passengers. Its average load factor is an enviable 69%. Last year it earned $1,095,000 on revenues of $23.5 million. The biggest attraction is Icelandic's small fares. A round-trip excursion ticket between New York and Luxembourg costs $259 in the peak season and requires no minimum stay. For turboprops the fare is $239. The cheapest equivalent flight on any other scheduled line is $320 New York-to-Brussels, with a minimum stay of 29 days...
...foreign travel has become so routine that it has almost lost its status. According to the Census Bureau, $10,000 or less is the annual salary claimed by 50% of the U.S. tourists abroad this summer-although this includes the horde of students who are wandering the Continent. With round-trip charter fares to London sometimes under $200, it can be cheaper for Americans to vacation abroad than at home. It can be chancier as well. This month Cincinnati's World Academy charter service stranded 3,500 students in Europe when it suddenly went bankrupt...
...Penn Central's passenger service has been a particular plague. The railroad still runs 1,280 passenger trains a day-35% of the nation's total and 75% of the remaining long-haul sched-u'es. By Penn Central accounting, round-trip income from one New York-St. Louis train, for example, recently averaged $5,295 a day; but wages and other operating costs ran to $10,191. To pare such losses, the Penn Central two months ago petitioned the ICC to end all passenger service west of Buffalo, N.Y., and Harrisburg, Pa. Indignant protests from localities...
...Still, blacks feel unwelcome in many U.S. resorts. The more affluent (those with $7,500-$15,000 incomes) are spending anywhere from $500 to $1,500 on two-week vacations abroad. One Southern travel agency alone reports that over 500 blacks from its community have already signed up for round-trip tickets to Expo '70. This year Pan American is sponsoring West African tours, packaged by the country's leading black travel agency, Henderson's in Atlanta...
Working your way up Boylston Street, you find the Crimson Travel Service willing to sell you a round-trip ticket to Europe for $29.30-provided that you're accompanied by an adult and under two years old. Barring that, they will send you to Aruba for a week and bring you back for $229. Rix Drugs has Countess Lydia Grey facial tissue for 5 cents...