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626 FLIGHT JUNE 2OTH, 1946 CIVIL News of Charter Ser~ vices : Northern Ireland Advisory Committee MIDDLE EAST MARINE BASE : Hungerford, one of B.O.A.C.'s Hythe-class flying boats, flies over Cairo's tortuous back-streets before landing on the Nile at Rod- el-Farag, during the trip to Australia. WHERE YOU MAY REFUEL IN Flight of May 23rd, on page 525, we published a list ofthe airfields where fuel can be obtained by the civil pilot. Since then there has been an addition—Newtownards, nearBelfast, where 73 octane is retailed by Miles Aircraft—while 87 octane fuel is now available at Portsmouth and 73 octaneat Tollerton. CIVIL AIRFIELDS DEBATE ON July 1st, the subject of civil airfields which are stillunder requisition by the Air Ministry will be raised in the House of Commons in the Debate on the Adjournment by Mr.Eric L. Gander Dower, M.P. for Caithness and Sutherland. It is expected that such questions as compensation, non-returnof buildings to their owners, and similar problems will be debated. MORE AIRFIELDS AVAILABLE A LTHOUGH there has been a recent addition of nine air-**• fields to the list of those open for use by civil aircraft, all of these are, in some way, restricted. Five of them—Alder-grove, Jurby (I.o.M.), Leuchars, Manston and Turnhouse— are limited for use by aircraft operating on charter services andonly after permission has been obtained from the CO.; three —Carlisle (Kingstown), Croft (near Darlington) and Denham—may be used with permission; and the last—London (Heath- row)—is limited to use by aircraft operating on scheduledservices. _ NORTHERN IRELAND COMMITTEE WHEN the Civil Aviation Bill becomes law, a Northern Ire-land Advisory Committee will be established in order to ensure that Northern Ireland is provided with air services andairfields in every way commensurate with her needs. In announcing this in the House of Commons on June 6th, theParliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation stated that the decision had been made as a result of discus-sions between the Minister of Civil Aviation, the Minister of Commerce.for Northern Ireland, Sir Koland Nugent, and theChairman-designate of British European Airways, Sir Harold Hartley. Also as a result of these discussions, and after con-sultation with the Secretary of State for Scotland, it had been decided with Sir Harold Hartley's agreement, that the respec-tive chairmen of the advisory committees for Scotland and for Northern Ireland should be appointed to the board of BritishEuropean Airways Corporation when it formed. AIR A.B.C. FOR the first time, the " A.B.C. Air Guide" has been pro-duced as a separate monthly publication, on lines similar to the A.B.C. Railway Guide. It contains an alphabeticalworld gazetteer showing how to reach each point from the U.K. and, in cases where direct schedules from the U.K. exist,it quotes times of services, fares, and baggage allowances. There is also a section giving the numbered time tables of themain trunk and important branch air services arranged in numerical order and including details of fares and baggagecharges. Maps in colour of the main air routes are attached to the Guide. The A.B.C. Air Guide will be brought up to date each month, and is being published at 2s 6d by Thomas Skinner & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., of 141, Fetter Lane, London, NEW YORK-LONDON-VIENNA AS forecast in Flight a fortnight ago, Pan American Worlda Airways inaugurated a direct air service between New York and Vienna via London, Brussels and Prague on June15th. Constellations are being used for this service which is being run to a twice-weekly schedule and which is additionalto the normal daily Panair schedules between New York and London. Aircraft leave New York on Thursdays and Satur-days, arriving at London Airport and continuing on to the Continent on Fridays and Sundays respectively. The faresfrom New York are: to Brussels ^i"oo; to Prague /112; and to Vienna /116. ICELAND CHARTER '"THE new charter service between Reykjavik and Copenhagen,•*- which calls at Prestwick en route, is already heavily booked for the next two or three months. The first flight fromIceland took place on May 27th and aircraft belonging to Scot- tish Aviation, Ltd., are being used under charter to IcelandAirways. Liberators are operating over the Reykjavik-Prest- wick section and DC-3S, converted to 21 seaters, are used be-tween Prestwick and Copenhagen. At the present time the question of " fifth freedom " rights is under discussion betweenthe Ministry of Civil Aviation and Iceland Airways, but never- theless, passengers from the U.K. may use the Prestwick-Reykjavik section of the route, for which the single fare is £-29- CHEAPER FREIGHT June 6th we quoted B.O.A.Cs new fares on the trunkroute services to Cairo and beyond. The Corporation has now announced that the freight rates on these routes have alsobeen reduced, and that freight intended for destinations between U.K. and Calcutta can be accepted without a Govern-ment priority. For points beyond Calcutta, the sponsorship of a Government department, or of the office of a DominionsHigh Commissioner is still required. The new rates are in some cases less than half the old ones;for example, freight to Cairo now costs 6s 6d per kilogram instead of 17s, and to Baghdad 8s instead of 20s 8d. Therate to Sydney has been reduced from 61s iod to 41s. 7d. NO PRIORITIES A N air service on which over 400 crossings of the South**• Atlantic had been completed prior to the war is being resumed on Saturday next, when the Air France weeklyschedule on the U.K.-South America route begins again. Sky- masters will be used and they will start from Paris, makingstops at Dakar and Reciffe en route to Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Air France services fromLondon, Glasgow and Manchester will connect with the Sky- master at Paris, and when the company introduces a newschedule next month, Dublin, too, will be linked with this South American service. Passengers will not require priorities on this service, and
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