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1981 Laker Airways Skytrain advertisement from TTG magazine promoting low-cost transatlantic flights to travel agents

1981 Laker Airways Skytrain advertisement from TTG magazine promoting low-cost transatlantic flights to travel agents

A full-page Laker Airways advertisement from TTG UK & Ireland magazine dated January 30, 1981, targeting travel agents. The ad promotes Skytrain's simplified fare structure with the bold headline 'You make money by selling airfares. Not by explaining them.' It features fare tables for Walk-On and Super Economy services to New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, emphasizing Laker's revolutionary no-frills approach to transatlantic travel.

Laker Airways Skytrain Sir Freddie Laker 1981 1980s TTG magazine travel trade advertisement transatlantic flights low-cost airline fare structure travel agents marketing

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