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Travelers got three pieces of good news last week from the airlines.

P: Pan American, T.W.A. and the nine foreign lines that fly the North Atlantic agreed on new, low-cost tourist flights (TIME, Nov. 26) between the U.S. and Europe starting May i. The fare: $270 one way between New York and London, $486 round trip (v. $711 for first-class flights), with a reduced $417 rate for the off season between Nov. 1 and March 31.

P: United Air Lines, following a CAB suggestion, asked permission to cut its coast-to-coast coach fares from $110 to $99 eastbound and $88 westbound, with a $167 round-trip fare (v. $300 first class). It also asked for a new $24 coach rate between Chicago and New York. United's proposal, lowest transcontinental rate ever offered by a scheduled airline, came at the same time as National Airlines' request to cut its coach fare between New York and Miami from $53 to $43. T.W.A. also asked to cut fares.

P: New York became the third city (first two: Los Angeles and Chicago) to get CAB approval for mail, freight and passenger helicopter service connecting its three main airports with Manhattan and 43 points outside the city. New York Airways, Inc., authorized to start the service, will not be allowed to fly passengers except between the three airports until it has carried freight and mail for a year.

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