N.A.C. SEAT BOOKINGS
Society Wants System Kept The Constitutional Society has urged the National Airways Corporation not to abandon the present arrangement for advance seat bookings in favour of a “first come, first served” system, says a supplied statement.
The general manager of the corporation. (Mr D. A. Patterson), recently said that as internal air services developed and catered for many more passengers it might be necessary to depart from the system of advance seat reservations.
The president of the society, (Sir Matthew Oram), said yesterday that it had been represented to the annual meeting that where seat bookings had been abandoned on certain internal services overseas a most unseemly scramble resulted, which was much to the disadvantage of elderly people and children.
“On all other transport services in New Zealand covering journeys of more than a few miles the system of advance seat bookings is well established and it would indeed be a retrograde step if air passengers had to fight for seats in an aircraft.
“The present arrangement whereby the passenger receives a seat number when he or she finally books is both convenient and satisfactory and it would be a great pity to depart from it,” Sir Matthew Oram said.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31190, 14 October 1966, Page 16
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