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MAY 3RD, 1945 FLIGHT 483 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS US-SPAIN TRIAL A TRIAL flight, heralding the first U.S.-Spain airline service,will be held next month, according to information from Madrid. This is stated to have been decided at a meeting of the U.S.Export Commission and Spanish experts. INTER-ISLAND TRAFFIC THE British West Indian Airways have recently receivedthree aircraft from Canada and have thus been able to improve their service to Barbados. The company is reported10 be planning an extension of operations to other islands. AUSTRALIAN NETWORK AUSTRALIAN civil airlines, serving 74 cities and towns,flew a total of 10,614,250 passenger and transport hours in 1944. , The lines carried 244,8.59 passengers, over 1,729 tons ofreight and more than 1,831 tons of mail. In addition to internal flights, thrice-weekly services wereoperated by Qantas between Australia and Ceylon on the British England-Australia route. SOLD A TOTAL of 44 DC-3S have been sold by the U.S. SurplusBoard to foreign companies. Of European operators Sweden bought five, France five, K.L.M. four, S.A.B.E.N.A.,Iberia of Spain and Turkish Airways and the Royal Norwegian Air Transport three each. Lockheed Lodestars were sold to the Canadian Pacific Air-lines, Lebanon, the Linea Aeropostal Venezolana (three each) and two to the Navegacao Aereo Inter-Ameticano of Cuba. CUBA REORGANISES /~*ONTROL of civil aviation formerly exercised by the Army^-^ has been transferred to a National Transportation Com- mission. Proposals are now being worked out for the estab:lishment of an independent civil aviation authority. Another Government decree declared all privately owned andoperated airports in Cuba open to public against payment of fees to be established by the Government. The Compaiiia Cubana de Aviation has been awarded a newfive-year internal air-mail contract and is to start a night service between Habana and Santiago de Cuba. VALUE OF SURPLUS THE rate of utilisation of aircraft engaged in American civiltransport is still going up. According to the U.S. Air ransport Association, last autumn it was at 12J hours and^ miles per day per aircraft, while to-day it is about 13J hours and slightly over 2,000 miles per day. Based on this rate of utilisation, it is estimated that the82 transport machines turned over to airlines by the Surplus Board will add another 60,000,000 aircraft miles annually tothe total of American internal and foreign services. BRISTOL SETS AN EXAMPLE CIVIL air transport was the subject at a public meetingorganised by the Bristol Chamber of Commerce at Bristol last week. The Lord Mayor, Mr. W. F. Cottrell, opened themeeting, at which eight mayors of West-of-England towns were present. The speakers were Lord Brabazon of Tara, Mr.Peter Masefield, and Capt. A. G. Lamplugh. Lord Brabazon stressed the importance of "showing the'lag" in the air. Aircraft would be the yardstick by which foreigners judged ottr technical efficiency. They would bepieces of England that went out to represent us. Bristol must be a centre, not merely an import port but also anexport port. Perhaps London would have to be the main terminus for the transatlantic air route to America, but therewas no reason that because there is a Paddington there should not also be a Temple Meads. Mi. Masefield,referred to the great technical strides madeduring the war, and expressed the opinion that air fares would be about 2^d. per passenger air mile, compared with thepresent first-class railway fare of 3d. per mile. Capt. Lamplugh referred to the need for co-operation bymunicipalities. On the insurance side he pointed out that the transatlantic insurance rate for air passengers was now aboutone-fiftieth of the rate that obtained ten years ago. Col. Whitwell, president of the Bristol Chamber ot Com-merce, said preliminary meetings had already been held with local authorities in Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.We understand that an air committee is to be formed for the purpose of pressing the claims of the West Country. ADVANCE PARTY '"THE first Lancastrian on a development flight for the London--»- New Zealand service shortly to be opened arrived in Auckland in 53 hr. 13 min. flying time from England, a distanceof 13,380 statute miles. This is the first of five Lancastrians ordered by QantasAirways for a regular service, and it left this country on April 23rd, touching down at Auckland at 05.20 hr. on the 27th. The second aircraft left U.K. on April 24th. It is hoped that the service, which will bring New Zealandwithin about 86 br. of London, might start early in June, but this would depend on deliveries of aircraft. As a preliminary, aircraft will fly straight through, changingcrews at Karachi, where Qantas take over. As aircraft and crews become more available, B.O.A.C. and Qantas will operateparallel services.. CEYLON PLANS HPHE Ceylon Board of Ministers have decided that the opera-•»- tion of any air service in the island after the war should be handled by the Government. The decision followed a dis-cussion on a memorandum presented by the Minister of Com- munications and Works, Mr. J. L. Kotalawala, in which hesuggested that the Government of Ceylon should take a financial interest in the formation of a corporation, and that until opera-tional experience was gained the corporation should link up with an established air line under a partnership agreement. It was suggested that 40 per cent, of the required capitalshould be provided by the Ceylon Government, 30 per cent, by the B.O.A.C. and 30 per cent, by the Ceylon public. A short while ago a new company known as the Ceylon Air-ways, Ltd., has been formed by local business interests for the purpose of establishing air services between the island andIndia and feeder services. SCOTTISH PLANS " "VTO single organisation, no one group of established com-J-N panies is big enough to handle post-war air commerce on behalf of the 50,000,000 people of the United Kingdom."says a statement by Scottish Aviation, owners of Prestwick airport, in their proposed new schedules of services. The ambitious and intensive programme of services on in-ternal, European and trans-Atlantic routes which the company desires to operate introduces two novel features. First,, anannouncement of the company says that it wants no subsidy. "It wants neither monopoly nor quasi-judicial 'protection,'and hopes, indeed, to have regulated competition from other British airlines on every route which it proposes to operate."Secondly, passenger rates are based on third-class surface fares and are in the neighbourhood of 2^d. a mile for all internal andovereas services. In consequence a glance at the list of proposed fares makesone feel like packing up one's kit and going places. A single fare from Prestwick to Moscow, for instance, is quoted at £17,to New York £40, to Amsterdam £\ 17s. The airlines services which Scottish Aviation propose to flyin the immediate post-war period provide for regular day and night service between Prestwick and North America, six in-ternal routes with frequent daily schedules from Prestwick, Grangemouth or Edinburgh to London, Paris, and the principalcities of the U.K. The frequency of proposed services between Scottish airportsis designed to permit business men in Central Scotland to deal with the morning mail at their offices and reach the capitalbefore lunch time. Three flights daily each way are proposed between Scotland and Paris, two flights dailv each way to Oslo,Hamburg, Stockholm and Amsterdam, and" once weekly from Prestwick to Copenhagen, Vienna, Belgrade, Prague, Moscow,Marseilles, Rome, and Athens. The Far East service Prestwick-Vladivostok via Athens,Cairo, Jerusalem and India, a total distance of about 10,700 miles, would leave Prestwick on a Monday at 9 a.m., arrivingearly next morning in Cairo and Thursday in Vladivostok.
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