THE SKY WINS

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Across
  1. 2. (5) — First jet airliner to enter commercial service, flown by BOAC
  2. 3. (4, no-space) — British airline that flew the Comet on the first scheduled transatlantic jet route
  3. 7. (7) — Name Idlewild Airport took in 1963, after the assassinated president
  4. 8. (10, no-space) — Roughly how long Pan Am's first jet crossing took, versus five days by sea
  5. 10. (7) — What winter cruising really was, for ships built for speed
  6. 11. (10, no-space) — What every transatlantic liner ran once jets took over the route
  7. 12. (12, no-space) — Off-season alternative work some liners took on in the Caribbean or Mediterranean
  8. 13. (9) — What 1957 marked, the first year air passengers outnumbered sea passengers on the Atlantic
Down
  1. 1. (8, no-space) — Nickname for the Boeing 747, which deepened the liners' decline
  2. 4. (9, no-space) — What Pan Am and BOAC's new jets offered as a faster alternative to a five-day crossing
  3. 5. (8) — London airport BOAC's Comet 4 flew from on its first scheduled transatlantic run
  4. 6. (6, no-space) — Era that began for aviation in the late 1950s and ended it for ocean liners
  5. 9. (5, no-space) — Airline that flew the first scheduled Boeing 707 service across the Atlantic