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Airline Plans
Youth Prices

Eastern Airlines has announced
a new fare for youths aged 12
to 22 that will provide confirmed
reserved-in-advance seats for two-thirds
the regular coach fare.

The new fare, filed with the
Civil Aeronautics Board to be effective
April 28, replaces the former
standby 50 percent fare in which
youths were not able to make
reservations and could be seated
only on a space-available basis.

The revised fare will be effective
throughout Eastern's entire domestic
system, including the Air-Shuttle.

The new one-third discount adds
only a small amount to most
youth fares. For example, one-way
fares will increase $2 between
New York and Hartford, from
$6 to $8; $8 between New York
and Atlanta, from $25 to $33;
and $6 between Atlanta and
Miami, from $21 to $27.

On the no-reservation Air-Shuttle,
fares, including taxes, will be
boarded as regular passengers, eliminating
standby waiting and advance
ticket purchase for youth
card holders.

Current Eastern youth travel
cards will be honored under the
new tariff and the airline will
launch a new campaign to increase
youth travel.

In its filing with the CAB,
Eastern said the standby youth
fare had proved uneconomical and
had resulted in a number of difficulties
for its young passengers.

The new youth fare will apply
to all youths between the ages of
12 and 22 who are holders of
authorized youth fare identification
cards.

It will be valid on coach flights
scheduled to depart between noon
Monday and noon Friday, and between
noon and midnight Saturday,
and it will be sold on a
regular reserved-seat basis.

Blackout periods when the youth
fare will not be in effect are:
December 1 and 2, December 18
through 23, and January 2 through
5.