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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 1932.PDF
34° SEPTEMBER 26TH, 1946 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS Dutch and Italian Agreements : B.O.A.C. Private Show PRESTWICK OCCASION : The B.O.A.C. Constellation Balmoral taxying in at Prestwick after the first flight on the New York- Prestwick service. THE AMERICAN WAYH AVING settled down and accepted our own design torcivil air transport, it might be of interest to study briefly the American way of running civil aviation. Indoing so it is necessary to remind oneself constantly of the circumstances peculiar to America, the large areas to becovered, and the lesultant greater public demand for air transport. There is no parallel equivalent to the British Ministry ofCivil Aviation. Two separate organizations are in control— the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Civil Aeronautics Admin-istration. The C.A.B. is a judicial body of six, appointed by the Government, which is responsible for the policy ofAmerican civil aviation. Matters of foreign aviation policy are dealt with jointly by this Board and the Aviation Divisionof the State Department. One of the primary objects of the Board is to eliminate unsound and dangerous competition be-tween American airlines jri those routes over which it has been decided to fly schedules. The C.A.A. is a large organizationof civil servants having control over all the technical aspects in connection with aircraft, airfields and domestic aids toflying. It is the duty of the Administration to issue certifi- cates of airworthiness, maps, charts and Notices to Airmen,to provide aids to navigation and meteorological services, and to organize air traffic control^ within the United States. It isin this direction that the American tax-payer subscribes to civil aviation. The airports are, .with the exception of one which is Govern-ment controlled, run by the city authorities and assisted by the Government in their initial outlay and expansion only.As part of the C.A.A. organization, personnel are provided to man the meteorological and other services at the airports,but it is rather interesting to note that the larger airlines normally provide their own briefing personnel and serviceoperators as well. It is sometimes said that the carriage of air mail is sub-sidized. This is sot wholly true since the airlines are granted a sum which amounts to approximately the balance of theextra payment for air mail over the normal postage rates. It might be said, therefore, that the post office does, in fact,benefit considerably from air mail in America. The position of the charter companies, of which there aremany, is approximately similar to our own. The C.A.A. must be satisfied that the aircraft belonging to any charter companyare suitable for the carriage of passengers on non-scheduled services. If a charter company wishes to extend its activitiesto scheduled services, then it must satisfy the C.A.B. not only that it is capable of running suitable aircraft on anefficient service, but also that the service is necessary for the benefit of the public. All the main American scheduledairlines were required to offer this proof before they were permitted to run their present services. If an airline wishesto extend its routes, it is necessary for the company to present a case to the C.A.B., when it is considered against otherapplications for the same route on the basis of its usefulness and necessity for the benefit of the travelling public, so pro-moting healthy competition. An interesting feature is that, because it is considered thatthe American people have an indirect share in civil aviation, the balance sheets of all companies must always be made avail-able to the public. ... CORPORATIONS' SALARY SCALESJ IN a statement issued on August 27th by the British AirlinePilots' Association, reference was made to the pensions scheme for pilots,- which is being drawn up under the CivilAviation Act, being the bar to the finalization of new salary scales. Negotiations tor new salary scales within R.GvA.C.were commenced by B.A.L.P.A. in February of this year, the pilots asking for a general increase of 50 per cent on the thenexisting salaries. Negotiations proceeded slowly as they were bound up with discussions on a new type of agreement betweenthe Corporation and the Association to govern the employment of pilots within the Corporations. There was a further delay when it was decided that negotia-tions should proceed jointly with B.O.A.C. and the two then embryonic Corporations. After preliminary discussions in July it was realized thatfinal salary scales could not be determined since the principles were not known on which the new pensions scheme, framedunder Section 20 of the Civil Aviation Act, was to be based. To satisfy primarily the requirements of the junior membersof the Corporations who were finding living conditions very difficult on the then existing salaries, an interim scale wasdrawn up It is considered regrettable that discussions should be sus-pended whilst a pensions scheme is being framed under the Civil Aviation Act, particularly when there was in existence anadmirable pensions scheme fOT pilots employed by B.O.A.C. drawn up as a result of long consultation between the Corpora-tion and B.A.L.P.A. That scheme, which was " frozen " when the Bill became law, was acceptable to both pilots andemployers and might well have been taken over in its entirety. ITALIAN AIRLINES "DRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS and the Italian Govern--D ment have signed an agreement which provides for the establishment of an Anglo-Italian company to be known as Aero P.l.C.A.O. REPRESENTATIVES : Sir James Temple Cotton,C.B., O.B.E. (left), formerly the Under-Secretary of M.A.P Mwho is acting as our P.l.C.A.O. representative pending the arrival of Sir Frederick Tymms (right) -who will be the futurepermanent representative. ' luJu<
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