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PLIGHT, NOVEMBER 20, 1981 COMMERCIAL FLYING IN FINLAND AND ROUMANIA IN the reports issued by the Department of OverseasTrade on the Economic Conditions in Finland andRoumania, the following references are made to airtransport: — Finland.—The Finnish Aero Company of Helsingforsmaintains passenger and goods services on the Helsingfors- Stockholm and Helsingfors-Tallinn routes, on the formerroute during the summer months and on the latter in the winter as well, as soon as the ice is strong enough forlanding. The Swedish Aerotransport Company also co-operates inthe Helsingfors-Stockholm line. The Aero Company receives a Government subsidy. During the present yearthe Aero Company is also running the Stockholm-Gothen- burg section of the night mail service between Stockholmand Copenhagen. The Abo-Mariehamn-Stockholm service, which was run in recent years, has been discontinued inthe present year, but the Helsingfors-Stockholm planes make a call at Abo. The following table shows the progressof the Aero Company: — . • - 19241925 19261927 19281929 /930 KilometresFlown. 18,33051,640 93,059169,043 263,925284,110 248,720 Passen-gers. 534 1,453 2,2765,214 8,1579,114 3,890 Mail. Kg. 508 533 9,6375,426 10,06316,723 21,582 Freight. Kg. 4,0947,990 22,25221,416 38,92368,597 40,664 The reduction in passengers in 1930 is principally due toice conditions on the Tallinn route, and the small reduc- tion in the; total distance flown is due to an increase in thenight mail services between Stockholm and Copenhagen, in which the company has been co-operating since 1928.Sevrral types of aeroplanes are constructed in Finland, some under licence. Apart from the military flying schoolthere is also a civil flying school, and the Volunteer Defence Force nas recently started a flying corps. The AirDefence Association carries on a lively propaganda in favour of aviation.Roumania.—The only civil aerodromes at present in use in Roumania are those of Baneasa (near Bucarest), Galatzand Cernauti. A civil aerodrome is under construction at Cluj, and th"e military aerodrome at Chisinau is availablefor use by the Civil Aviation Service, and it is hoped that A Fast Trip from Marseilles to Paris ONE of the Air Union machines, carrying six pas-sengers, accomplished a remarkably fast trip between Mar- seilles and Paris recently. It covered the 470 miles in2 hr. 55 min., including a stop of ten min. at Lyons, representing an average speed of 160 m.p.h. The Christmas Air Mail from Australia AN aeroplane left Invercargill for Auckland, NewZealand, on November 12, collecting mail en route (over 3,000 letters made up the consignment), to connect withthe air mail on the Australian National Airways' Avro 10, the Flying Sun, which is to leave Sydney for Englandon Saturday, November 21. - - The England-Capetown Service IT has been decided to open the through service from London to Capetown on January 20, 1932. The first northward service will leave Capetown on January 25, and is due at Croydon on February 5. The journey is to occupy 11 days. At present the African service of Im- perial Airways ends at Mwanza, on the Lake Victoria. A full description of the African airway, with a map, was published in our issue of October 17, 1930. Malta as an Air Centre IN the House of Lords, on November 17, Lord Strick-land called attention to the importance of Malta as a centre of air traffic, both from the point of view of com-mercial development and because of the position of the ultimately a part of this aerodrome will be"*delinitely setaside for the use of the Civil Flying Service. There is as yet no customs station for seaplanes, but themilitary seaplane station at Siut-Ghiol may be used by civil and foreign seaplanes with a permit from the militaryauthorities. The use of military air stations by civil aircraft is onlypermitted on the basis of a permit from the Ministry of the Army (Directia Aeronautica). The following air routes over Roumania are permitted toforeign aircraft: — (1) Constanza-Bucarest.(2) Cernauri-Bucarest. (3) Satu Mare-Cluj-Brasov-Bucarest.(4) Oradea-Mare-Cluj-Brasov-Bucarest. (5) Arad-Timisoara-Caran'sebes-Orsova-Turnu-Severin- Bucarest.(6) Giurgiu-Bucarest. A translation of the decision of the Ministry of Industryand Commerce of October 10, 1930, relative to the charges made for the use of civil aerodromes of the State, whichare open to public traffic, may be consulted at the Depart- ment of Overseas Trade (35, Old Queen Street, S.W.I).The only civil air services in Roumania are the following:—CIDNA, a company which runs a daily servicefrom Paris to Bucarest. and vice versa from about April to November. The calling stations on this route areStrassburg, Niirnberg, Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Bel- grade ; and LOT, a company which, since the spring of1930 has run a service three times a week from Dantzig, through Warsaw to Bucarest, with short stops at Lemberg,Cernauti (or J assy)'and Galatz. At present these aeroplanes call at jassy, as the customs premises on the Cernauti aero-drome are in course of construction. This line will shortly be extended to Sofia (Bulgaria). About the end of the year 1930 the Civil Aviation Depart-ment put forward a suggestion for the formation of a limited liability company with the co-operation of foreigncapital and of the Roumanian State to undertake the man- agement of all civil air transport and eventually to estab-lish or participate in other enterprises connected with air transport. Up to the end of April, 1931, there had been noresponse from abroad to this suggestion. The fact is that the Civil Aviation Department has run no air lines up tothe present, and it was no doubt hoped that the companies already working in this country would join with theDepartment and periiaps with other foreign enterprises to form a large company with State participation. The only civil aerodromes which have customs accommo-dation are those of Baneasa (near Bucarest) and Galatz. but as above""stated the aerodrome of Cernauti will shortlybe added to their number. island as a most vital centre of British power overseas.With its great, but undeveloped, air ports of St. Paul's Bay on one side, and Marsaxoloe on the other, Malta mustin the future constitute a principal stopping place on the main air routes to the East and South. Until a year agoMalta was considered too far from Great Britain for this purpose, but to-day it was an easy hop of 10£ hours'duration from Croydon. On the route to India it avoided the passage of the Alps. Lord Strickland urged that itshould be made " the Clapham Junction of the air " as rapidly and as thoroughly as possible, as a wise contri-bution towards the maintenance of trade and as a defence of a great fortress and its dockyard. The Marquess of Londonderry, Secretary of State forAir, replied that it was true that the flying boat was developing rapidly, and that its range was increasing, butto make use of Malta as a stage on the India or Africa services would involve a much longer route than wasnow flown. The use of Malta would entail a flight along the inhospitable shore of North Africa in conditions lesflfavourable than those on the route now followed. The fact that Malta had been reached in one day in a lightaeroplane did not mean that the route could be used for a regular commercial service. The Government had lastyear concluded agreements with Italy and Greece, after full consideration, and he saw no reason to suppose thatthe present services would not be continued for some time to come. 1156
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