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American Airlines introduces a new hub-and-spoke airfreighter service.

American Airlines is feeding its 747 air- freighters in the Northeastern U.S. and the Caribbean with Lockheed's L-100-30 Hercules airfreighters.

The five-day-a-week Hercules service now links Boston and Cleveland to American's 747 airfreighter hubs in New York and Chicago. And American offers prime-time 747 connections to and from those airports to other major cities. Shippers also can use direct Hercules flights between Chicago and Boston.

In the Caribbean, Hercules operates between American's 747 Puerto Rican hub, San ]uan, to Port-au-Prince in Haiti and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. It's also a five-day- a-week service.

And there's more good news for shippers. Hercules can handle virtually any cargo that fits into a 747, including M-1 containers. This greatly expands shipper opportunities to use M-1 containers and eliminates costly handling charges in transferring equipment from pallets to containers.

Hercules and the 747. Together they make a new profit pair for airlines.

For more information on Hercules, the feeder freighter, call or write Commercial Sales, Lockheed-Georgia Company, Marietta, Georgia 30063, (404) 424-2706.

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