Milestones

Press, 4 December 1979, Page 15

Milestones

Korea ts pupating iur a tourist boom. The industry nas grown rapidly at an annual rate of 40 per cent over the last 10 years to top one million visitors last year. This figure is expected to double by 1982. A $42 million expansion orogramme of Cheiu Airtort will begin next year. Korea's National Tourism Corporation has also ■'pened a new office in Svdney and has app<vnted Mr Kwang-Hee Lee as its director. The C A.B. ha'; approx ed an agreement calling ler the establishment of a nonprofit corporation which would assist foreign and United States airlines in obtaining fuel at reasonable cost.

A round-the-world fare will be available for passengers on Singapore Airlines and Trans World Airlines under an exclusive agreement concluded recently. To be called the “Easy World Fare,’’ it will

oc available :b. sate initially in Singapore and the United States from January 1. The economy fare will be SUSIS99 anti, first-class, $Lb2499 Mount Cook Airlines probably estabbshed a new record the other day for the number of passengers carried >na4B—eat Hawker Siddeley ’.'4B Di< head count revealed 8! passengers—including 34 babies accompany .ng iheir miners to a La Leche League conference. Australia has introduced a new low tare between Sydney and Tokyo ot SS2-» ret urn in the low season (about nine months ot the year). This represents a reduction on the normal economy fare of 46 per cent. Japan Air Lines has placed an order for six additional wide-body transports with a iota! value of $350 million. The order is for three 8747 s and three DC-10-40S.