Newspaper Article Featuring Myrtle Bergheim

THE WASHINGTON POST 4 Monday, July 18, 1949 Waiting for Aircoach Cut-Rate Aircoach AIRCOACH 807 DEPARTING 30PM AIRCOACH BOS ] PITTEBURGH REPUTING 120118 Attracts Travelers DETROIT ] 1 e By Chalmers M. Roberts S Post Reporter U If you have any doubt the trav- the airlines frequently fail to meet J eling public will do almost any- their schedules, plus the longer t thing in search of a bargain, drop time necessary to go and come out to National Airport any night \ from airports, the time saving is half an hour after midnight. 1 You'll see dozens of Washing- great. On a trip to the Midwest ] tonians plus just as many visitors or the West Coast it is immense. } to the city lined up to board an Fare Big Attraction \ aircoach-the biggest thing in But the big come-on which is cheap air travel and right now a filling Capital's nightly aircoach the hottest thing in aviation. S The aircoach is another proof planes out of Washington is the t fare. that the public is nursing its dol- i lars, that there are plenty of During June a plane left every 1 things Americans want to do and night as scheduled. The planes, want to buy-but they want the for that month, left National Air- ] price to be right. And transporta- port filled to 87.5 per cent of ca- 1 tion prices have been high-espe- pacity. : cially on planes. Last Wednesday night, one air- S coach took off at 12:30 a. m. with How System Works b every one of its 50 seats occu- Here are the facts: I pied-plus three additional babes- You can fly on Capital Airlines' J in-arms. In all, a dozen children aircoaches from Washington to were aboard. (A second plane Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, leaves here at 1:01 a. m. on a The Washington Post Chicago, Milwaukee or the Twin slightly different route.) WESTBOUND PASSENGERS-Miss Myrtle at National Airport. Next in line is Miss Berg- Cities for practically the same A sampling of cash customers Bergheim, secretary to White House Press Sec- heim's sister and the baby's mother, Mrs. Ade- price as a railroad coach ticket. turned up these reasons for tak- retary Charles Ross, holds Stephen Dowling, 1, line Dowling, of 1304 Saratoga ave. ne. To Pittsburgh the air fare is act- ing the plane-and remember they ' ually $1.64 less than by train. arrived in Pittsburgh at 1:44 a. m., Time-wise, of course, air service Charles Ross at the White House: whose husband is a District official on the New York-Chicago run has in Cleveland at 2:46 a. m., Detroit is much quicker. It takes only an "It's an inexpensive way to go and who was traveling with Dinah, risen month by month this spring at 3:32 a. m., and Chicago at 4:30 hour and a quarter to fly to Pitts- on a vacation." 6, and Bill, 9. in the morning. from 69 per cent in March to 82 burgh, while one railroad takes Miss Eve Levy of Ann Arbor, The majority of the aircoach 63/4 hours and the other 8 hours Passengers Tell Why Mich., after a visit with Mr. and travelers are women, with a large to 87 to 92 as weather improved on the fastest trains. Miss Myrtle Bergheim, 2222 I Mrs. Paul Krause of 1214 Tewkes- sprinkling of children. Business- and vacation arrived. On the Even allowing for the fact that st. nw., personal secretary to bury pl. nw.: men usually are less concerned Washington-Chicago run, begun d PRESERVATION COPY "It's a money saver after you've with the price of the ticket and April 1, comparable figures were t spent a lot on a trip. Of course more with hours of travel and ride 75 per cent in April, 79 in May t it's rather difficult to ask anyone the regular day trips. Some pas- and 87.5 in June. The break-even S other than somebody in your sengers, such as a soldier and a point for the airline is around 50 t family to meet you in the middle sailor going home on leave, were per cent of the seats filled. S of the night." on the aircoach merely because it Weekend Demand Miss Dorothy Early, 2622 P was the first plane they could catch The service out of Washington / st. nw.: out of Washington. on weekends now is so popular "Well, I'm going to a wedding. Some Drawbacks Noted the Friday night flight is sold out 1 I guess the extra money saved There are drawbacks. Here are for two or three weeks in advance k will help buy a wedding present." some: and extra planes-extra "sections," S Mrs. Eula Rush of Minot, Connections are bad in most they are called-are the regular S. Dak., who had come to Wash- cities. Of all the Nation's airlines, thing. All