Dallas discount

Press, 6 October 1987, Page 1

Dallas discount

By

LES BLOXHAM

travel editor

Heavily discounted tickets for flights from London to Dallas are being offered by Air New Zealand to staff of other airlines and travel agencies in Britain.

Discounts of up to 92 per cent are being given to IM interline (other airline) staff, slashing the normal round-trip economy fare from $1839 to $l5l. Travel agents will have to pay a little more ($191) to make the same trip, but they will stand a one-in-19 chance of going free. The airline will refund the money on 19 of the tickets available to travel agents. The “exclusive" deal is being offered to .readers of “Air - Travel,”,„a London-based magazipe; for- airline staff and travel 4 agenfiu~Z2r «be«p laresI ares flights in ..November will : highUghtthe introduction©! the airline's new service to London, via Papeete and Dallas, later this, month. J;

A public affairs spokesman for Air New Zealand in Auckland yesterday described the discounts as a “come-on” offer to people involved in selling the destination.

He said the airline had no plans to extend the deal to New Zealand.