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574 FLIGHT JUNE 6TH, i94r, IVIATION Reduced Fares : B.O.A.C's Constellation Service : Airport for Qlasgow : More Airtfe| Agreements ON THE TARMAC : ThsBristol Wayfarer as seen from the control room ofJersey Airport. The first of thj Wayfarers is ex-pected to go into service with Channel Islands Air-ways in time for ths summer traffic. FOR AUSTER OWNERSI N case there are any owner pilots or ground engineers who donot ordinarily see the An Kegistration Board's Notices, No. II of Issue I to such should be treated with urgency.Apparently there have recently been two cases of aircrew bolt failure with Auster V Jis, and the notice in question givesdetails of these and explains the checking procedure. NEW YORK TO VIENNAI T is reported that Pan American World Airways are begin-ning next week a twice weekly service from New York to Vienna, departing from New York on Thursdays and Satur-days. The first service is due to leave on June 15th and is scheduled to reach London on the 16th and continue viaBrussels and Prague to Vienna on the same day. FAR EAST MISSION ARRANGEMENTS for the opening of the proposed U.K.-A Far East service, the ultimate destination of which is Tokyo, are being made by a B.O.A.C. mission headed by LordBurghley which is visiting the Far East. The mission, which includes Mr. R. D. Stewart, Assistant Director General (Com-mereial) and Air Vice-Marshal Sir Victor Tait, Assistant Director General (Technical) will investigate the provision ofcommunications, and of meteorological and landing facilities. B.O.A.C QUARTERLY A NEW quarterly magazine in colour, Wings Over the World,has been produced by B.O.A.C. It is intended primarily for circulation to senior executives of business firms and formembers of organizations concerned with the export trade or interested in air transport, who, subject to the inevitablerestrictions of paper supply, can become regular recipients of the magazine. The first issue ranges over subjects as varied as "Gas Turbines for Civil Aircraft" and "Fashions from Britain," and includes an " Air Quiz." The magazine is well produced, withplenty of illustrations, although the colour in this first issue tends to overshadow the quality of these pictures. ANGLO-ARGENT1NE A GREEMENTU NDER a new ten-year Agreement between the U.K. andthe Argentine Government, reciprocal air services can be operated between their respective territories. The Agreementenables British South American Airways to operate routes, via Lisbon or other intermediate points, to Buenos Aires, provisionbe^pmade for an extension to Uruguay, and also, via Lisbon aoK other intermediate points, to Santiago, either directlyover Argentine territory, or via a designated airport or airports in*Argentina. In return, the Argentine Airline (F.A.M.A.) can operate toand through British territory from Buenos Aires, via one or more intermediate points, including Bathurst -(if desired), Fliijht " iilnnonraiili. Lisbon, and/or a point in France, to London or any otherHesignated airport in the U.K. F.A.M.A. is also granted the rights to operate over the same route to the U.K. and thenceto agree? points on the European Continent. B.O.A.C. ATLANTIC SERVICE A TWICE-WEEKLY service in each direction across theNorth Atlantic is planned by B.O.A.C. to open on July 1st using the first of the Corporation's much-disoussedConstellation aircraft. At first, the route will be from London Airport via Rineanna and Gander to New York, but whenthe services have reached a frequency of four per week each way, one of them will be routed via Prestwick. Ultimately,when the service becomes a daily one, five each week will go by Rineanna, and two via Prestwick. LOWER FARES AT the beginning of this month, a considerable reduction inB.O.A.C.'s fares came into effect on the trunk route ser- vice to Cairo and beyond. In addition the lnggage allowanceon these routes has been increased from 44 to 66 1b. The new rates represent only a preliminary adjustment as a first steptowards the introduction of B.O.A.C.'s complete post-war pro- gramme and even lower fares. The present adjustment inrates is as follows; 1 £ £ I New Old New Old U.K.-Cairo 65 85 Cairo-Karachi 65 66 U.K.-Basra 90 128 Cairo-Singapore .. . 120 122 U.K.-Karachi 120 151 Cairo-Sydney 220 230 U.K.-Calcutta 140 163 Karachi-Singapore .. 73 1ft U.K.-Singapore .... 170 207 Karachi-Sydney .... 178 183The reduction in the U.K.-Cairo fare will result also in a corresponding reduction in the fares from U.K. to a numberj|*vpoints in East and South Africa, such as Mombasa and DurbairW RENFREWT HE Minister of Civil Aviation intends Renfrew Airport to bean important operations and maintenance base for British European Airways. This was disclosed by Mr. Ivor Thomas ina written answer to a recent question by Mr. Rankin. The Parliamentary Secretary's reply said that already the airportwas the centre ol a network of airlines, and it was planned to expand this network so thai Clydeside would be connectedwith the main centres of population in the United Kingdom, and with the Orkneys, Shetlands and the Western Isles. Ser-vices were also planned which would connect Renfrew direct with the Continent. Before the war, continued the reply, Renfrew was a compara-tively small grass airfield, but it had been greatly extended during the war and now had two hard-surface runways, i,95°and 1,300 yards long respectively. \ third runway of i,35° yards was considered desirable, but was, at present, the subjectof negotiations owing to the approach to the new runway inter- fering with a proposed extension of the Hillington industrial
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