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1946
1946 - 0211.PDF
JANUARY 31ST, 1946 FLIGHT 121 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS SOUTH AMERICAN LANCAS-TRIAN : Quite unlike the original long-range V.I.P. Lan-castrians are those laid out for British South American Airways.This not very exciting, but nevertheless informative photo-graph of the interior of a B.S.A.A. Lancastrian shows how the seat-ing is arranged, in normal airline manner. NEW K.L.M. SERVICESL AST week K.L.M. opened a daily service between Amster-dam and Zurich in co-operation with Swissair, who are < ;it present making the run three times a week. The Dutchservice to Prague is due to be opened on a three-times-weekly •basis on February 4, and in due course will start a service toMadrid and Lisbon. Schiphol, Amsterdam, should see, next month, the first ofAmerican Overseas Airlines' Douglas DC-4S on the regular run from New York. PRESTWICK-BELFAST A NEW air service between Prestwick and Belfast is beinginaugurated by Scottish Aviation. The service will operate four times daily, except Sundays, using 22-seaterOakotas and the single fare is to be 30s. Announcing this service, Group Capt. D. F. Mclntyre saidthat although the fare would appear to be reasonably low, it was in fact much higher than it should be on account of fueland other restrictions which limited the use of each aircraft to 60 hours' flying per month. IN BERMUDA GENERAL agreement on the question of the use of air baseshas been reached by the committee concerned during the conferences in Bermuda. Tentative decisions have been madeabout the number and positions of those bases which are to be used regularly or as alternatives. The Colonial Governmentsconcerned will, of course, need to be consulted and the report submitted to Washington and London before it is placed infront of tile complete conference. Altogether some ten air- fields have been under discussion, and the first agreements willprobably concern the airfields in Antigua, St. Lucia and at Kindley field in Bermuda. TWO CHARTER COMPANIES THIRST of the independent concerns to obtain a foothold at•*- Croydon was the new Mortem Air Services, who are operating charter services with a fleet of D.H. Dragon Rapides.The concern actually started operating on January 19 after being in- existence for some little time while waiting for thepromised freedom. At least two well-known names are asso- ciated with M.A.S.—Mr. T. W Morton, who is managing direc-tor, and who was, before the war, the chief pilot of Olley Air Service, and Mr. D. L. Eskell, the general manager, who hasl»eea concerned in charter work for the last quarter of a i-t-ntury. Meanwhile, in the North of England, the Lancashire AircraftCorporation is planning to operate on charter work from the i-ld Stanley Park airfield, Blackpool. Three D.H. DragonRapides have been ordered and the company hopes to purchase larger aircraft in due course. The manager is Wing Cdr. B. T.Aikman. During the war the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation has been doing repair work at Blackpool and are, so to speak,merely carrying on from the same base. THE WAR IN AUSTRALIA A CCORDLNG to recent reports it seems likely that the•**- Australian Government may, in an effort to secure airline control, appeal to the country through a referendum. It willbe remembered that the airline companies recently appealed successfully against the nationalisation legislation, and obtaineda ruling that the Australian Government was not entitled to establish a Government monopoly of internal airlines. Various suggestions have been made by those who are infavour of nationalisation whereby the private airline operator may be squeezed out. In the meantime, unless the Govern-ment can obtain full powers by referendum, it will be necessary for any national airline corporation to launch its own servicesin competition with those of the existing companies, and tin: result, from the passengers' point of view, should bemagnificent. THE NEW CORPORATIONS DRASTIC changes in the board of B.O.A.C. were announcedin the House of Lords by the Minister oi Civil Aviation on January 23rd.The new board is composed of ten members—Lord Kncllys, Sir Harold.Howitt, Sir Harold Hartley, Lord Burghley, MajorJ. R. McCrindle, Mr. Gerard d'Erlanger, Mr, John Marchbank. Mr. G. M. Garro-Jones, Mr. Clement Wakefield Jones andMajor R. H. Thornton. Lord Knollys and Sir Harold Howitt continue as chairman and deputy chairman respectively.We announced last week the resignation of Brigadier General Critchley from the post of director-general, and now two moremembers of the former board no longer serve. They are Sir Simon Marks and Mrs. Cusack Fahie, who is better known,perhaps, as Miss Pauline Gower. During the war years the board was restricted to a maximumnumber of nine members, but, as Lord Winster pointed out, the necessity for this restriction has now disappeared, and theOrder in Council imposing it has, therefore, been revoked. When the European corporation is-formed, Sir Harold Hart-ley and Mr. d'Erlanger will leave the board of B.O.A.C. and join that of the European corporation, as chairman and chiefexecutive respectively. Until then they will devote themselves at once to the " civilianisaticn " of R.A.F. Transport Com-mand's existing European services, and to all other matteis connected with present and projected services in Europe. Theprocess of taking o^er European routes from Transport Com- mand is, in fact, already in hand.The European corporation will also operate the internal n< t- work of airlines. It will become a statutory public corporationunder the name of British European Airways. The South American corporation will be officially designatedBritish South American Airways. The entire shareholding of the existing British South American Airways will be boughtby B.O.A.C. and the capital for the new corporation will be provided entirely from public funds. As in the case of BritishEuropean Airways, there will be a completely separate board operating independently of B.O.A.C., and this board .will havesole responsibility for the work of B.S.A.A. The chairman of this new corporation is to be Mr. John Booth, who is atpresent chairman of the Booth Steamship Co., but who severs
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