First published by British Airways Tuesday 14 October 1975.
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Take Your Seat On Concorde
TOMORROW, October 15, the travelling public gets its first opportunity to book a supersonic flight on Concorde.
British Airways Reservations will accept bookings for Concorde flights to Bahrain. Initially there will be two Concorde flights a week by British Airways to the Gulf. Flights will leave Heathrow every Monday and Wednesday at 10:45 and will land in Bahrain just over four hours later, at 18:00 local time. Concorde flights from Bahrain will leave at 09:45 on Tuesdays and Thursdays and arrive back in London at 11:05 local time.
A British Airways spokesman commented that over the past few years a considerable number of transatlantic passengers have been asking to travel on the first supersonic Concorde flight. These people are now being contacted.
Statement
Whilst Concorde flights are still subject to full governmental clearance being given, the opening of reservations follows a joint statement by the British and French Governments announcing that British Airways and Air France will begin scheduled commercial services on the same day—January 21 next year.
Direct to Cyprus
AFTER a break of more than a year, British Airways is to resume direct services to Cyprus starting in November.
The service will be operating in conjunction with Cyprus Airways using DC-9 jets. They will be flown from Heathrow to Larnaca on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and other Salonica and Athens. On days when these direct flights do not operate, passengers can fly to British Airways to Athens, and connect with Cyprus Airways’ flights from there to Larnaca.
More to Turin
BRITISH Airways is stepping up flights to Turin this winter.
From November 1, the airline will be flying to Turin from London on Wednesdays as well as on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays. All flights leave Heathrow at 10:50 and arrive in Turin at 13:40. Return flights leave Turin at 14:25 and arrive in London at 15:10.
British Airways also flies to Milan, Rome, Pisa/Florence, Naples and Venice.
Take the Caribbean Connection
British Airways will fly to more of the important business destinations in the Caribbean, Bermuda and Bahamas from London this winter than any other airline.
It is the only direct operator to Bermuda, Nassau and Freeport, offering six non-stop services to Bermuda each week, four to Nassau and two to Freeport.
On two days each week the Kingston service is operated by spacious British Airways 747s.
There are also 707 services to Kingston, on Thursdays and Sundays.
To the east Caribbean British Airways is the only direct operator to Antigua, Georgetown and St Lucia. From November 1 the service to Bridgetown goes daily for the first time.
There will also be a flight each day except Sunday to Port of Spain in Trinidad.
This is a region which is growing rapidly economically and British Airways is on hand to fly out men and materials speedily and efficiently to meet the demands of businessmen.
And to those businessmen who are unsure of their markets the airline can even offer a study tour to help them acquire the necessary knowledge of the area.
Canada is getting a super service
BRITISH Airways is the only airline to offer businessmen speedy services to Canada from the British provinces.
It is not necessary for executives in the north of England and Scotland to fly down to London to pick up their transatlantic flight.
This winter they will have a daily British Airways Boeing 707 service from Manchester and Prestwick to the thriving economic markets of Montreal and Toronto.
The service leaves Manchester at 11:00 and Prestwick at 12:25, arriving in the Canadian cities at 13:50 and 15:25 respectively.
British Airways will also have more scheduled Boeing 747 services this winter linking these two great trading countries than any other airline. Until the beginning of February, excluding Tuesdays during November, the airline will have a daily 747 flight between London, Montreal and Toronto.
Flight BA 601 leaves London at 13:15 hours and arrives in Montreal at 15:20 and Toronto at 17:40.
Hotels to take good care of you
THREE more hotels have recently joined the British Airways Associate hotel group to bring the total number to 45.
They are: the President, in Johannesburg, for which British Airways has a marketing agreement with Trust Houses Forte; the Rheinstern Plaza, Düsseldorf, and the Balaia Penta on the Algarve—new additions to the popularly priced Penta range of hotels. They have also increased their investment in the Coral Strand in the Seychelles.
The three newcomers have only one thing in common with the other 42 hotels in which British Airways has an interest—they meet the very high standards set by the airline, but are not standardised as are many hotels in large “chains”. The business men and discriminating holidaymakers, who are the most frequent patrons know that whatever the price range each hotel has its own individual character. Locations are diverse including airports, city centres, beaches and safari parks.
Facilities
Many British Airways hotels boast facilities specially tailored to ease the life of the business man away from his base. The Rheinstern Penta, for instance, offers a bureau service, providing offices, secretaries, telex and copying machines.
British Airways hotels can now be found dotted round the world from Jamaica to Hong Kong, from Brussels to Guyana, from Nairobi to Copenhagen. And there are six in the United Kingdom: two in London, one in Belfast, and near the airports at Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow.
One other point appreciated by both the businessman-in-a-hurry and the holidaymaker who wants to be sure of his accommodation before he leaves home: rooms at any of the 45 British Airways Associate hotels can be booked through the airline’s reservations computer at the same time as the booking for the flight is made.
A Flying To Start To Marriage
CHRISTIAN DUVEKOT and Cecily Palmer Roberts got their married life off to a flying start.
For their walk up the aisle was on board a British Airways jumbo jet, to the accompaniment of the wedding march played over the aircraft’s loudspeakers.
American businessman Christian and Cecily boarded the aircraft in Miami together with their attorney who performed the ceremony before the aircraft took off for London, and the start of their English honeymoon. And British Airways Captain Brian Higgins did more than just pilot the aircraft. He was the best man.
Cecily said as she stepped from the airliner at Heathrow in a yellow wedding dress and carrying her bridal bouquet of red roses: “It was just fabulous.
“As soon as the wedding was over all the passengers crowded round toasting us with champagne. Of course, we had caviar with our wedding lunch.”
The Indian Adventure
INDIA unhurried in the 20th century is a land of contrasts and contradictions, and perhaps one of the few places in the world where real experience is still to be found at the end of an air ticket.
And now there are Speedbird Holidays to India. This is an attractive programme of quality arrangements for the discerning traveller.
The holidays include air travel on the scheduled services of British Airways and Air India and can be tailor-made to individual requirements.
You can choose between one and two-centre holidays and tours. Prices start at £255.
Inflation can’t hurt these holidays
PEOPLE booking a Sovereign or Enterprise summer holiday to Europe or North Africa between now and January 16 can do so in the knowledge that the move, is fully inflation-proof.
These early bookers will only be charged the price printed in the brochure—even if fuel or currency surcharges force up the cost. The revolutionary scheme freezes the brochure price of a Sovereign or Enterprise holiday in Europe and North Africa for as far forward as October next year.
Announcing the deal, Mr Gerry Dwyer, Chairman of Sovereign and Enterprise Holidays, said research carried out this summer among holidaymakers at resorts in Europe showed continuing concern about the final cost of the final holiday. This was the greatest deterrent to those planning a holiday abroad next year.
The new plan removes the uncertainty about the final cost of the holiday, he said. Mr Draper added that the move had been made possible by the great success of Sovereign and Enterprise holidays over the past two years. He went on: “There are no reasons for the success. First, Sovereign and Enterprise were the only major holiday companies to predict and plan for this year’s holiday boom.
“Secondly, a realistic pricing policy which offers value for money holidays which people both trust and can afford..”
Next summer Enterprise will be operating holidays to the first time in Sardinia, the Greek island of Tinos, Playa de las Americas in Tenerife and Salou on the Costa Dorada. New areas for Sovereign will be St Lucia, Mauritius, Hamburg, the Austrian Tyrol and Israel.