Airline Strike Threatens Plans For Thanksgiving Transportation

"Of course we're in great confusion here," reported a secretary of the University Travel Co. above a frenzied moil of office noise in a telephone interview yesterday. "Eastern Air Lines has cancelled all trips for two weeks, and American may follow."

The airline strike, falling on the rush season of students flying home over the Thanksgiving holiday, has paralyzed a sizeable percentage of the intended holiday air travel, and has swelled the demand for bus and train transportation beyond capacity.

H. C. Blumberg, manager for University Travel, which handles a majority of the Square's travel arrangements, observed that, "People are cancelling their reservations on the airlines, and we are trying to resettle them on trains and busses."

The airline travel crisis, according to AP dispatches last night, began last Friday when a strike closed down Trans World Airlines. Eastern Air Lines stopped all flights Monday after a walkout of mechanics and engineers.