Britain Starts Walk-On
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Air Services
An experimental jet shuttle ser vice will be introduced by British Airways on its domestic services be tween London and Glasgow from next (northern) winter.
Passengers will not need to make reservations or buy tickets in advance.
They will be guaranteed seats on the flights which will be run in sec tions of one or more aircraft and will operate at regular intervals in both directions from early morning to late at night. Departures will be at easy-to-remember times, making timetable searching unnecessary.
Frequency will be adjusted accord ing to demand.
At the same time improvements, including simpler reservations and ticketing arrangements, a roomier executive class of service with two instead of three abreast seating and an air to ground message service, will be introduced on London/ Edinburgh, London/Belfast routes.
If the walk-on type of service proves a success British Airways will extend it to other major domestic routes and to some international routes such as Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Dublin.
More than 1.7 million passengers a year fly on British Airways major domestic trunk routes —nearly 700,000 on London/Glasgow alone.