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1946
1946 - 0870.PDF
448 FLIGHT MAY 2ND, 1946 CIVIL AVIATION IMPROVED ATLANTIC SERVICE TRANSATLANTIC nights made by Trans-Canada Air Lines•«• have now been increased to four per week. Lancastrians leave Prestwick on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri-days for Montreal, and on a normal flight there is accommoda- tion for ten passengers and 3,5001b of mail, express and bag-gage. Half fares are now available for children between two andtwelve years old accompanied by a passenger aged twelve or over. INCREASED COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC / \F the passenger traffic handled on B.O.A.C.'s Empire and*~J European Division services, some 80 per cent, is now com- mercial ; the remainder consists of Government and Servicepassages. B.O.A.C. has announced a considerable increase in air bookings by industrial firms for their overseas representa-tives, and the Passenger Bookings Branch in London is hand- ling over a thousand telephone enquiries and requests forreservations on aircraft every day. Many passengers,however, who wish to travel on the Empireand trunk line'air ser- vices still do- not seemto appreciate that their applications must besponsored by an appro- priate Government de-partment who forward requests for air passagesto the Air Priorities Board for approval.Similar restrictions do not apply on the Euro-pean services, where only a percentage ofaccommodation is re- served for prioritytraffic. FREE AIR THE Erst step in free-ing the air for civil aviation generally hasbeen made by the Government of Portu-gal, which has abol- ished all prohibited fly-ing zones over its terri- tory. An announce-ment to'this effect was recently made by Dr. Warner, the President of the Interim Council of P.I.C.A.O. Commenting EXCRESCENTIAL: In order to take advantage of the possible load-carrying capacity of the somewhat slim-fuselaged Constellation, an " over- load " freight compartment has been devised. This can carry four tons,and is quickly removable, but lowers the cruising speed by about 10 m.h.p. The difficulty would be to bridge the initial period when the volume of traffic would be inadequate, but trade should follow transport, and such combined travel facilities, even if main- tained at a loss to begin with, would prove the most powerful means of opening up new trade and travel throughout the Empire and world. APPOINTMENTS TO B.O.A.C. T"rIE appointment of two new members to the B.O.A.C.-»- Board has now been announced by the Ministry of Civil Aviation. They are Lord Rothschild and Mr. H. L. New-lands. The former is taking up a technical post, and the latter will be concerned with labour relations—doubtless inreplacement of the vacancy on the board caused by the recent death of Mr. John Marchbank. Lord Rothschild is 35, and is well known in scientific circles.During the war he served with the Army Intelligence Corps, receiving the George Medal in 1944 for work on bomb dis-posal, and also the American Army Bronze Star and the American Legion of Merit. Mr. Newlands, who is 48, is a former branch secretaryof the Transport and General Workers'Union. He has held official appointments asLabour Inspector under the Ministry of Labourand National Service, and also with theMinistry of War Trans- port. In 1941 Mr. New-lands was appointed National LabourOfficer of the National Dock Corporation, andhe will continue in this appointment until hetakes up his new post with B.O.A.C. on May18th. He was awarded the M.B.E. this year. TO P.I.C.A.O. FOUR more ofP.I.C.A.O.'s Secre- tariat posts have been* filled with the appoint- ments of Lt. Cdr. NeilRichardson, R.N.R., as Chief of Regional Or-ganization; C. L. Cade (U.S.A.) as Chief ofPersonnel; K. E. Lohse (U.S.A.) as Expert with the Aeronautical Maps and Chartssection; and Fit. Lt. M. A. Bierens de Haan (Netherlands) as on Portugal's action, he said that it represented a progressive Analyst to the Air Transport Bureau. step forward in removing barriers to international civil aviation, COMBINED OPERATIONS? DURING a lecture on "Ocean Transport" which he gavebefore the Institute of Transport on April 8th, Mr. P. Maurice Hill, the general manager of the Chamber ofShipping of the United Kingdom, said that although the future development of air and sea transport would necessarilybe closely linked, participation in the development of air travel and in the possibilities of air freight had been denied tosurface transport, whether sea or rail. Even the nominal admission of sea and rail interests to air chartering or taxiservices had been made worthless by the threat of competition Irom all-powerful State monopolies. The Government, when announcing its policy, had said thatit would seek the co-operation of surface transport with air transport, continued Mr. Hill, but, so far, no steps appearedto have been taken. Neither the shipping industry as a whole nor individual shipping owners had been approached,either by the Government or B.O.A.C. He suggested that there was no difficulty in making arrangements for theco-ordinating of routes and services, or for through bookings or interchangeable tickets between two forms of transport.There should be a future for combined sea and air transport. Lt. Cdr. Richardson represented Imperial Airways inCanada, Newfoundland, and the United States, before the war in connection with the organization of North Atlantic flying-boat services. During 1940-1941 he was in charge of all Imperial Airways flying-boat operations from the U.K. andlater went to Canada and the U.S.A. to investigate operational facilities and to study the organization of Trans-Canada Air-lines. He was appointed Superintendent of Routes tor B.O.A.C. and, later, Chairman of the B.O.A.C. AerodromeCommittee. He was also a member of the Air Ministry Aero- drome Advisory Mission to the Middle East and South AfricanAir Conference. AND TO INDIA THE development of India's civil air transport services hascalled for an expansion in the Civil Aviation Office of the Government of India. Three new appointments at Delhi havenow been filled by specialists from England. They are Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Rice, K.B.E., C.B., M.C., who hasbecome Deputy Director-General of Aircraft, Air Commodore E. I. Bussell, C.B.E., who has been appointed Director ofLicensing, and J. P. Jeffcock, who is now Director of Com- munications. Sir Edward Rice served with the R.F.C. and the R.A.F.
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