Monday, Jul. 10, 1933
Waiting Lists
P:Alvan Macauley, president of Packard Motor Car Co., was in Manhattan last week, wanted to go home. The weather was stifling. He called up American Airways which had lately opened New York-Chicago service via Detroit with 15-passenger Curtiss Condors. What was that? . . . All space taken. Why, that couldn't be possible; well, how about tomorrow? . .. Sorry, all booked up for four days ahead. . . . What? Well, let me know if somebody cancels his reservation. What's that? . . . Sorry, Mr. Macauley, we have a waiting list of 30 already. . . . Disgruntled, Mr. Macauley took the train. P: With seven planes a day scheduled in both directions between New York and Boston, American Airways had to run extra sections on three schedules. For the first two weeks of June the company's entire system carried 7,101 passengers-- 56% more than for that period a year ago. The month's total probably hit 15.000. P:Last week United Airlines had eleven planes a day flashing back & forth between New York & Chicago, every one of them jammed to the doors. A request for seat space on that route can rarely be filled less than two days in advance. For holiday bookings United had a waiting list of 60. CP:, Eastern Air Transport (New York -Washington -Atlanta -Miami) collected 7.500 fares last month, the best month it ever had. Last week it stepped its New York-Washington service up to ten round trips daily, every hour on the hour, "silent" Condors on every trip. On every hand was evidence that air transport was at long last reaching the goal which it set in 1927: to get the ordinary, non-adventurous, safety-loving traveller into the air.
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