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FEBRUARY 15TH, 1945 FLIGHT 185 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS SCOTS DISTURBED \ DISCOUNT SWINTON'S statement to a deputation of Scot-V tish M.P.s that Prestwick is not to remain the couutry's chief transatlantic airport seems to have nettled Scotsmen ofevery shade of political opinion. It is also complained that the proposed railway air networkplan does not provide for a direct connection between Scotland and continental Europe. Even to Northern European capitalsGlasgow businessmen would have to travel by train to Edin- burgh, from there to Newcastle and then fly back past Scotlandto reach Scandinavia. US. AIRCRAFT SALES DOUGLAS Dakotas.and Lockheed Lodestars are now being„ offered from surplus stock to airline operators in this and other countries by the U.S. Mission for Economic Affairs. A circular issued by the U.S. Embassy to British and foreignair transport companies in this country gives the maximum price for the Dakota as ^25,000 and for the Lockheed ^17,000.The offer is in accord with the previously announced U.S. policy to make transport aircraft available to all interestedparties and has already been extended to a number of countries, as, for instance, Belgium, France, Turkey, etc.<jj^ut the chief selling point in the proposition is not only xuat airline operators have an opportunity to secure aircraftwhen no other sources of supply exist, but to make it even more attractive, the Americans are willing to undertake thesubstantial reconversion work on these aircraft from military to civilian air transports. NORWAY SIGNS A SPOKESMAN at the Norwegian Embassy in Washingtonrecently told Reuter that M. Wilhelm Munthe de Morgen- stierne, the Norwegian Ambassador, .had signed, at the StateDepartment, documents drawn up at the Chicago Civil Avia- tion Conference. They covered the interim agreement, permanent conventionand "two freedoms." The interim agreement reached by the International CivilAviation Conference, which concluded at Chicago on Decem- ber 7, provides for the establishment in Canada of a provisionalorganisation until the permanent convention—the international civil aviation organisation—is set up. Under the " two freedoms," each State which signed theInternational Air Services Transit Agreement permits aircraft of other contracting States to fly across its territory withoutlanding or to land for non-traffic purposes. AIRBORNE LETTUCE A SURVEY conducted by Detroit's produce merchants inconjunction with the Department of Agriculture revealed that lettuce could be flown from California to Detroit at a costof approximately 3J c. (about twopence) above that of the railborne product and the speed in transit would be 17 timesreater than by rail. The report found consumers willing to pay that bit extra fora fresh lettuce. FROM LATIN AMERICAA S far back as September, 1935, the Argentine Governmentpassed a law providing for the establishment of a central national airport. The proposals foreshadowed an airport situ-ated within the city boundaries of Buenos Aires;and dating both land and sea aircraft. Three separate plans were subsequently drawnwith three different sites. But studies revealed Ihat would need considerable levelling and require a^Jongthe land to settle. These plans have therefore^ee^ abandon*decided to plan and estabjpih ajj airport at Seis de Septembrt, to <th The site is situated aljocity, and traffic to tfte ai onlynd\itlandplaenos f g of thebrity over other ine-way journey in 5f several new airports at road traffic, to allowthirty minutes. Chile is planning th$ constructioa cost of over ^150,006. A government-controlled airport and aviation company inPeru is to make and manage airports. One of the first air- ports to be established will be located on a high plateau onthe western slopes oi the Andes near the capital, Lima. This airport is to cost nearly £50,000. SAFETY "DECENT safety statistics reported by the Civil AeronauticsJ-V Authority confirm the airline safety record. The average yearly number of passenger miles llown for eachpassenger fatality by U.S. scheduled home airlines from un- to 1937 was 13,725,096. For the following six-year periinl,1938-1943, the average was 47,772,014, or an increase oi more than 250 per cent, in the average number of miles fkmn perpassenger fatality. N.Z. PREMIERS DENIAL M R. PETER FRASER, the Prime Minister, denied an Aus-tralian report that the Australian and New Zealand Governments had reached an agreement to nationalise theinternal airlines of both countries. Mr. Fraser said the question had never been the subject of an understanding or ofdiscussion between the two countries, as matters relating to internal economy and the industrial organisation of the countrywere not fitting for discussion between the Governments. Pin- points of agreement reached, said Mr. Fraser, were confinedentirely to international and British Commonwealth aspects of aviation. CHEAP RATES AN offer of "mass passenger transportation" across thePacific in less time and at lower rates than minimum first- class passenger liners has been made by 1'an AmericanWorld Airways in their application to the U.S. Civil Aero- nautics Board, as briefly mentioned on this page last week.Some further examples of proposed fares for single journeys from San Francisco or Los Angeles, with 1938 2nd Class andTourist shipping fares in brackets, are as follows: To Auck- land via Honolulu $292.50, about £73 ($218—£54); to Cal-cutta v^i Tokyo $393, about ^98, ($336—-^84); to Canton via Tokyo $321, about ^80 ($215—,£54) '• *° Shanghai via Tokyo$303, about ^76 ($200—^50); to Singapore $339, about ^85 ($240—£60); and to Tokyo via Midway $271, about ^69(8175—£44) • "CHOSEN INSTRUMENT" THE formation of a company to be the " cho.sen instru-ment" to handle America's foreign commercial air routes after the war is urged ny the Senate Aviation Sub-committee. Details "leaked" from the confidential draft report saythat the Committee proposes that stock in such a company should be held by Pan American Airways (the nation's biggestforeign airline), domestic airlines, railways and shipping companies.The company at all times and in all respects should be subordinate to the Government and its interests. "We recommend a minimum of American flag carriers—even just one—in the foreign field and the highest degree of regulation in the public interest," the report says. In the domestic airline field the report stated: "We haveall the restraints o* national power necessary to prevent monopolistic wrongs. To grant an operating licence to onerailway or steamship company would be an open door to pro- longed experience in cut-throat competition, impairing thesafety of travel and culminating in endless subsidies." The report, however, favours services to Mexico, Cuba andCanada by domestic operators, by reason of the proximity of these countries.The Committee bases its report on the estimate that in 1950 the U.S. share of international air traffic will be 1,550,000,000passenger miles and American domestic traffic 7,000,000,000 passenger miles. It is recalled that last August Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secre-tary of State, opposed any monopoly policy, saying that the experience of most other countries which had adopted amonopoly or chosen instrument policy had been that such a policy led to a government-owned system or one so com-pletely government controlled as to have all the qualitit-s of government ownership. The Aviation Committee, consisting of nine Senators, withSenator Josiah Bailey as chairman, is not unanimous on the report. Senator Head, of New York, supports a plan for anumber of airlines operating in different zones on overseas routes.A major clash is foreshadowed on this issue between the Administration and Congress, but a later comment in theAmerican Aviation Daily states that there i-s a strong reason to believe that the Committee's proposals are as good as deadas a result of a meeting between the Aviation Sub-committee of the Senate and Government officials. The paper adds thatit appears unlikely that the repoit will be ever issued.
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