Passengers Sour
(Special Crspdt NZF A > LONDON. August 5. British European Airways are losing passengers to other airlines because they have stopped giving them sweets before take-off, the House of Commons was told The subject was raised, appropriately. by Mr Raphael Tuck (Labour). His fear was that B.E.A. passengers had got so used to this custom that when it was arbitrarily withdrawn a number petulently took themselves off to other aircraft.
But the Government could not agree that any traffic had been lost. According to Mr John Stonehouse, the Parliamentary Secretary for Aviation, there is less need for sweet-sucking in modern aeroplanes than in older models. Mr Tuck insisted that sweets are good for what he termed “air health.” Mr Emanuel Shinwell tartly remarked that most people would willingly forgo sweets if only they could be sure of getting seats.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30823, 7 August 1965, Page 15
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