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1946
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348 CIVIL AVIATION FLIGHT APRIL 4TH, 1940 LONG-RANGE FERRYING WHILE already delivering a numberof DC-3 and DC-4 transports from Santa Monica, California, to Brusselsfor Sabena, British Aviation Services have also taken on the work of ferryingtwenty-two aircraft to Batavia for the Dutch Government. The first of theseC-47S recently arrived in this country from Canadair Works at Montreal, andwe believe that this particular contract is the biggest post-war ferrying jobsecured by any independent British . operator. MORE AGREEMENTS 'THE latest international civil airJ- agreements are between France and the United States, between Greece andthe U.S., and between Poland and the U.S.S.R. The last-named agreementprovides for three airlines, Moscow to Warsaw, Warsaw to Berlin, and Moscowto Berlin via Warsaw. The Greek agreement with the V 5is on similar lines to the recent Anglo-Greek agreement which provides for air services to lie inaugurated as soon as the opera-tive airlines have been designated. The French agreement with the U.S. provides for all five freedoms of tfce air and grantscommercial rights of entry for American aircraft into France or French territory at Paris, Marseilles, Algiers, Tunis, Dakar,Pointe Noire, Brazzaville, Gaudaloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, New Caledonia, Saigon, and Hanoi. In return, Franceobtains similar rights at New York, Washington, Chicago, Boston, Puerto Rico and, surprisingly enough, at the site ofthe U.N.O. headquarters. This is the first time that a service to the U.N.O. headquarters has been specified in an inter-national air agreement. CHEAPER CONTINENTAL TRAVEL B.O.A.C. have announced a reduction in their continentalfares with effect from April 1st. The decision to reduce iares on European services was taken at the recent I.A.T.A.conference in Paris, and at the same time it was agreed that the free luggage allowance should be increased to 44 1b. The new single rates are as follows: —Paris £7, Amsterdam£8, Stockholm £24, Madrid £21 10s, Gibraltar ^29, Lisbon £26, Copenhagen £xq 8s, Marseilles /13, Rome ^25 and Athens£41 10s. These figures should be compared with the previous fares quoted on page 269 of Flight dated March 14th. Thesingle fares to Brussels and Oslo are not affected and remain at £6 and £21 respectively. Return fares will remain at doublethe 'single fares until July 1st, but from that date there will by a 10 per cent reduction for sixty-day return tickets. AIR TRAVEL SIMPLIFIED p on customs, public health and immigration from-L* thirteen different nations, who form the Facilitation Divi- sion of P.I.C.A.O., have prepared a report in which they sug-gest the introduction of an "International Travel Card" which would replace passports and visas and be valid for oneyear at a time. The card would be issued by a state only to its own nationals, and each member state of P.I.C.A.O. wouldundertake to accept the return of any national considered un- desirable by another member state. Aircrew personnel woulduse their Crew Membership certificates. A second international certificate is proposed for inoculationand vaccination, designed to combine in book form all the dif- ferent certificates at present in vogue. Other important re-commendations in the report are that, except in an emergency, airport authorities should avoid delaying aircraft or examin-ing transit crews, passengers and freight; also that "customs- free" airports should be established, and that the number oiforms required for customs and other purposes should be re- duced in number and the remainder standardized. We have constantly urged a simplification of all the exist-ing formalities connected with air transport, not only as an encouragement to prospective travellers, but also to saveelapsed time on international schedules, and, incidentally, a good deal of the airline operators' money. The adoption ofany one of the recommendations would be of tremendous bene- fit to air travel. The adoption of the entire report would re-volutionize it. LICENSED : An initial five hundred of these two-seat BellModel 47 helicopters are bein j laid down for production this year. This type which has recently been granted a C.A.A.Airworthiness Certificate has an all-up weight of 2,100 lb, a " useful load " of 607 lb, a maximum of 100 m.p.h., anda range of 250 miles. BREVITIES TDURCHASED by Misr Airwork of Egypt, three Beech-t Model 18 twins are now being delivered by air across the South Atlantic, via Natal and Dakar. Certainly, the idea ofmaking deliveries by air, whenever this is reasonably and safely possible, is well worth consideration by &ll-manufactvirer$,* * * Three Saunders-Roe S45 Saro Flying Boats have been orderedby the Ministry of Civil Aviation. This six-engined flying boat, weighing more than 100 tons, was provisionally described inFlight on February 14th this year. * • » Scottish Airways Ltd., are bringing into force their summertimetable with effect from April 15th. Existing services are being improved and a number of new services are being intro-duced from that date. * * * The Bristol and West of England Civil Air Transport Com-mittee is to submit to the Minister of Civil Aviation a memor- andum urging the establishment at Bristol of a North Atlanticemergency airport, which will serve at the same time as a terminal airport for continental services.* * * As the first step in the development of Airwork's plans forNorth Britain, this concern has purchased Perth airfield at Scone. This airfield was previously municipally owned, andhas been the base for one of Airwork's three E.F.T.Ss. * * •K.L.M.'s new departure station and booking office at 202-204, Sloane Street, London, S.W.i, was officially opened on MarchOth. Mr. A. Plesman, the President Director of K.L.M., flew over specially for the function. British South American Airways is now carrying air mai-for all destinations in South and Central America and the West Indies at a uniform rate of is 6d. per half ounce. Tile serviceis run twice weekly. It is learned that the Bahamas Legislature has decided toappoint a Director of Civil Aviation and, when the R.A.F. leave Nassau Airport, to ask Pan American to operate it.• • # Capt. A. G. Lamplugh has been re-elected chairman for thecurrent year of the Air Transport Section of the London Cham- ber of Commerce. The two deputy chairmen are Air Vice-Marshal A. E. Borton, D.S.O., and "Mr. J. S. Wills. * * * Air Commodore E. D. M. Robertson, C.B., D.F.C., airportmanager of Croydon in pre-war days, who has been "looking after" Prestwick for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, took overofficially on April ist, when it passed into Government hands. ,4
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