Fares Across
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Pan Am To Cut
The Pacific
New excursion fares are of fered across the Pacific by Pan American World Airways start ing October 1, and new low bulk fares will be introduced January
1, subject to government appro -
val.
The excursion fares will be con siderably lower than existing economy fares, but higher than fares proposed earlier by Pan Am and rejected by the Japanese and British Govern ments, Rush S. Clark, Director for Australia, said in early September.
“While our initial proposal for significantly reduced Pacific fares was rejected, we feel that the pro posal paved the way for the reduc tions which we now plan to provide the travelling public,” Mr. Clark said.
The bulk fares, for groups of 40 or more, are similar to Pan Am’s earlier proposal via the Great Circle route.
Under the new proposal, the basic 14/21 day roundtrip economy ex cursion fare between New York and Tokyo, either via Fairbanks, Alaska or via the West Coast and Honolulu, will be SUSBS2.
The new bulk fares to be intro duced January 1 require that a minimum of SUSIOO in ground arrangements be purchased in ad dition to the air fare. Under the bulk fare programme. New York-Tokyo fare will be SUS6OO, West Coast- Tokyo SUS4OO, and Hawaii-Tokyo SUS2SO. Travel agents or Pan Am form the groups.
Caledonian Divers
on Japan TV
Melanesian women divers at Hienghene in New Caledonia have become stars of Japanese TV, film ing there since July. The divers in clude a 60-year-old woman who can plunge down to 12 metres in search of trochus shell.
Before plastics overtook pearl shell in the button industry, trochus div ing was a rewarding activity for the women of Hienghene, which is a scenic tourist spot on the east coast, 220 miles from Noumea.
The underwater cameramen from Nippon Television Network also plan to film islanders at Ouvea in the Loyalty group as part of a pro gramme on traditional fishing tech niques.