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482 FLIGHT MAY 3RD, 1945 CIVIL 1ATION NEWS CO-l -arr-trt to consider- serva a numberscussed with the Canadian PLAN for the promotion ofport enterprise designed able numbers of R.C.A.F.of Canadian communities has ' Government. Capt. W. D. Cabell, spckeAJan for a commijfetee organisingthe venture, has been in tmiolfjiC'ith several Government depart- ments and says 220 cag»mhmties have been approached. It is proposed tfe opera* under a federal charter with acapital of §4,2atf^pb>^naniing is to be provided by the service personnel whqwoul^ takejpart in the .venture arfd appropriateconto-ibutkyis ittHn commijrjities which are to be served, r'lt is <£j*te«:e<r that ecmipment*' including aircraft, may bebtainec^ fforn surplus Government stores through War Assets when they *ecome available. from thislandrthe granting of licences for such airas are proposed, it is understood the plan calls for little Gc*e"eja»frr£nt assi/tance. COLOMBIAN DEVELOPMENT /CONSTRUCTION of a commercial airport in Santa Marta,^s capital of the department of Magdelena, Colombia was authorised some time ago by the Government. The newairport will be designed to permit the operation of heavy trans- port aircraft which serve the Caribbean area and whose inter-national routes follow the coast. In Eastern Colombia which was always without regularmeans of communication, improved air transport facilities have been arranged by the Aerovias Nacianales de Colombia. A new Colombian company, the Mundos Aerovias, S.A., withheadquarters in Cali, department of Valle del Cauca, is to operate a freight and passenger service in the south-westernsection of the country, connecting all large gold mining pro- perties in that area. TRIPPE'S TIPS MR. -JUAN TRIPPE, president of Pan American AirwaysSystem, largest U.S. international airline in operation before ths war, endorsed the "basic philosophy " of a Bill toset up a single U.S. community airline in international opera- tions after the war, in testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on Aviation. Mr. Trippe cited estimates showing that but 9 per cent, ofthe total airline traffic before the war was carried overseas, and forecasts that by 1950 the total airline international trafficwould be not more than 18 per cent, of the total of all traffic. To divide overseas traffic between several airlines, Mr. Trippesaid, would weaken the U.S. competitive position against single- companv foreign airlines. SERVICE IN SWEDEN : The B.O.A.C. has just opened an information office in Stockholm to give advice and guidance on air transport. Mr. Trippe estimated that of the total overseas airline opera-tions about 60 per cent, would be over the North Atlantic, with the rest between Latin-America and the Pacific. He said thata fleet of eleven aircraft of a size recently ordered by Pan American, with passenger accommodations ranging between100 and 200 passengers, could carry 440,000 passengers across the Atlantic in one year. INTERNAL SERVICES THE summer time-tables of the Railway Associated Air•Companies indicate gradual improvements in wartime internal, air services.Railway Air Services, Ltd., announce a service which will operate in each direction on week-days between London(Croydon) and Prestwick. As already reported, it is intended primarily for Transatlantic passengers arriving at or leavingfrom Prestwick, The London-Liverpool service, which has been in operationsince November last, has been retimed and now leaves Croydon at 9.15 a.m., due Liverpool 10.55 a.m. The return serviceleaves Liverpool at 3.15 p.m. and is due Croydon at 4.55 p.m. Air passengers to and from Belfast, Isle of Man and Du^bJ^connect with the London service at Liverpool. The services between Liverpool and Belfast have been in-creased to four in each direction, and between Glasgow and Belfast to three in each direction each week-day.Scottish Airways.—Apart from the London-Prestwick ser- vice which is operated by Railway Air Services, Ltd., incollaboration with Scottish Airways, the summer time-table of Scottish Airways announces the introduction of a directservice between Glasgow and Stornoway thrice weekly in each direction. The journey takes two hours. The service between Inverness and Stornoway, whichoperated during the summer of last year, is. reinstated with a thrice-weekly service in each direction. The regular routesfrom Renfrew to Campbelltown and Islay and to and from Tiree, Benbecula, North List and Stornoway are still inoperation. Although travel restrictions to and from Eire limit thedemand, West Coast Air Services, Ltd., in conjunction with the Irish Air Lines, are maintaining two services each week-day between Liverpool and Dublin, the air journey being made in one hour twenty minutes. Isle of Man Air Services.—The frequencies of the servicebetween Liverpool and the Isle of Man have now been increased to four in each direction every week-day. Flyingtime is one hour by this service, which has proved to be one of the most popular air lines in the country. The services between Penzance and Scilly Isles continue tobe operated by Great Western and Southern Air Lines. NORTH ATLANTICT HE end of April has seen thecompletion of 1,500 flights on the North Atlantic Return Ferry serviceoperated by British Overseas Airways Corporation. This service has the uniVoperational record of several winters:"-^ Since B.O.A.C. became responsiblefor the two-way Atlantic service on September 24th, 1941, it has maintaineda schedule of regular crossings through- out the summer and winter in both direc-tions between Prestwick and Montreal. It now operates a daily service in eachdirection except that there is at the moment no west-bound flight on Mon-days and no east-bound service on Sundays. It is likely, however, that theschedules will be stepped-up to one daily in the near future. The route from Prestwick is usuallydirect to Gander, Newfoundland, a distance of approximately 2,800 miles.Should headwinds . be exceptionally strong the route may be via Iceland, orfarther north to Goose in Labrador From either Goose or Gander the servicesrun straight to Dorval, Montreal. An alternative to these routes is via theAzores. The 3,150 miles from Prestwick to Montreal and vice versa are frequentlyflown non-stop.
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