Evening star., 1949-01-23

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their heads together recently and
came up with another bargain for
price e-conscious travellers. Scheduled
to 60 in effect February /, the
interline agreement is to cut about
500 of the round-trip cost from
Eastern seaboard cities to San Juan,
P. r.. and four other Carib-
bean islands. via Miami and New
York AS two of the airlines serve
Washington, the bargain begins
across the Potomac at National Air.
port.
Eastern Airlines, National and
Pan American World Airways are
collaborating in the excursion rates.
While the fare reduction Is the most
obvious feature of the plan, the
route and liberal stopover privileges
tend to make it one of the most at
tractive among recent winter vaca-
tion offerings.
The lines allow passengers three
months in which to complete circle
trips, and permit visits of various
lengths at score Of cities between
New York and Miami, served by
Eastern and National, and at the
island capitals of Puerto Rico, the
Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti
and Jamaica. via Pan Americans
Clipper planes.
In announcing the proposal last
week, PAA Vice President Willis G.
Lipscomb said it was designed espe-
cially for travel agent merchandise
ing. Primarily, that means vacation
travel At the same time he pointed
out that the stopovers offer the op-
portunity to combine business and
vacation trips up to three months.
/ Two special fares are scheduled
One at $3.50 would permit a round
trip or circle trip between points
along the Eastern seaboard and
San Juan. The other fare, cut to
sle8, is to offer a circuitous route
/ that includes Havana and CANA
guey, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica;
Port au Prince, Haiti, and Ciudad
Trujillo, Dominican Republic, as
we'll as San Juan.
Explaining how the rates apply
MI. Lipscomb used New York and
Atlanta. Ga, as illustrations. The
examples he cited are applicable to
Washington and other cities As
we'll.
"A New York businessman" he
said. can Clipper directly to San
Juan, transact business there, take
another Clipper to Miami. enjoy
that resorts summer-in-winter for
several days or several weeks. and
return by Eastern or National to
New York, all for only $3.50, COM
pared with the present price Of
$285 80 for the same circle tour.
"In the same way a resident Of
Atlanta, for $l98, may fly to Miami
for a vacation, wander leisurely
down through Cuba, Jamaica. Haiti
and the Dominican Republic to
Puerto Rico, fly nonstop to New
York for a round Of theaters and
return to the Georgia capital"
The new round-trip or circle fares
will be applicable to the following
cities served by National. Eastern
or both: New York, Newark, Tren-
ton and Atlantic City, N. j.: Phila-
delphia, Wilmington. Del; Balti-
more, Washington. Richmond, Nor
folk and Danville, Va: Charlotte,
Durham, Greensboro. High Point,
Raleigh, New Bern and Wilmington,
N. c.: Anderson. Columbia. Flor
ence, Greenville, Spartanburg, S. c.,
and Atlanta.
Tn Caribbean air fare drop is to
come on the heels of another plan
that will cut the cost of flying from
Washington to Bermuda on Pan
American or British Overseas Air
ways planes.
As announced in q Star travel
page story January 9, BOAC worked
out an interline agreement that will
put Bermuda within reach of WASH
ington at the same fare offered New
Workers, namely, $40 one way and
$126 round trip. In effect, the price
absorbs the cost of airline tickets to
and from National Airport and La
Guardia Field.
AS was to be expected. Pan Ameri-
can followed suit. The same lines
involved in the BOAC arrangement
American. Eastern and Northeast
Airlines-will feed passengers into
New York from Eastern cities. Stop