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...This puts transatlantic air travel in the pocket of the workingman," proclaimed Freddie Laker, the scrappy founder of Britain's Laker Airways, when in 1971 he first proposed Skytrain "shuttle" flights between New York and London at rock-bottom prices. Six years of governmental turbulence have held up the takeoff, but last week President Carter approved Laker's plan. Since the British government assented in February, Laker's three red, white and black DC-10s are now cleared to begin flying passengers Sept. 26 at the lowest fares ever quoted: $236 round trip...
ABCs may be a headache for the scheduled airlines, but they could prove a minor worry compared with another nightmare looming on the aviation horizon-Skytrain, Freddie Laker's proposed international air shuttle. Skytrain is aimed at a sector of the travel market that even the ABCs do not cater to: passengers who are both on a budget and unable to plan ahead for cheap charter fares. They include, in Laker's definition, the less than affluent citizen "who gets a call that Aunt Matilda is very sick and wants to visit her before she dies...
...trijets-is painted in the red, white and black colors of his racing stud farm. The planes now work mainly on low-cost charters, including Advance Booking Charters, which Laker helped pioneer. But his No. 1 priority -or threat, as heads of the scheduled airlines would put it-is Skytrain, his proposed cheap ($135 one way), no-frills transatlantic air shuttle service...
Over the past five years, much of Laker's energy has been spent fighting red tape entangling his Skytrain project. He has already spent $1.5 million in legal fees and has triumphed in no fewer than eight official hearings on both sides of the Atlantic. Skytrain, however, is still stalled. Although the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington disapproved the proposal, Skytrain could still be okayed by President Carter. But no White House decision is likely to come until the British make up their own minds about Skytrain. A British appeals court last month invalidated a government ruling that...