transatlantic

Despite an improvement in transAtlantic traffic, airlines are faced with lagging advance bookings to Europe, so they are again offering discount fares for spring and summer.

A government genuinely seeking to discourage flying for environmental reasons does not simultaneously push for a new runway at Heathrow and increase the number of transAtlantic flights.

The Steamship Equinox, pride of the Equatorial Line, boasted accommodations that equaled those of a transAtlantic liner.

Her father, the late Charles A. Meyer, was president of Ferrotar Enterprises, a transAtlantic shipping company in New York.

I'm also suspicious of the transAtlantic approach designed to lure more and more readers from the other side of the pond, which might cause the paper to weaken its identity.

True, the day before she headed for JFK and her transAtlantic flight, Annie and I lolled about in bed for about eighteen hours of sexual bliss.

Then I heard about a new transAtlantic optical fiber link that is being laid that will shave 60 milliseconds - 0.06 of a second - off the time needed to move data from London to New York.

But she began to make a name for herself when, at 20 and the youngest of 56 competitors, she finished 17th in the wild Mini Transat race, a solo transAtlantic contest aboard radical, stripped-out 21-foot rockets.

Warren R. Luhrs, a Florida yacht builder who is part of her three-man crew, launched her in time for the 1984 solo transAtlantic race, in which she was the first American entry and the first single-hulled boat to finish.

Robert Crandall ("Thank You for Flying Whatever Airline This Is," Op-Ed, Aug. 23) expresses concern about the decreasing presence of United States carriers on transAtlantic flights and the loss of thousands of American jobs.

Goedhuis Contemporary 42 East 76th Street, Manhattan Through Feb. 22 The London-based dealer Michael Goedhuis has taken the transAtlantic plunge and opened a New York gallery concentrating on modern and contemporary Chinese art.

It is about eight times as large as Connecticut but has only about one-eighth its population, some 272,000 people living along the coast, more than a third of them in the capital city, indeed the only city, Reykjavik, famed as a sometimes stopover for transAtlantic flights.

TOXTETH kick boxer Alfie Lewis was nursing his bruises back in Liverpool today after winning his transAtlantic challenge match against the previously undefeated world heavyweight champion Steve 'Nasty' Anderson of the United States.