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1947
1947 - 1902.PDF
-5O2 FLIGHT OCTOBER 30TH, WEB-FOOTED : T/ie first de Havilland Dove to be fitted with floats. Design a d development of this seaplane version has been undertaken by the de Havilland Company of Canada. Water rudders are later to be fitted to the Edo floats. ABA and SILA to Amalgamate : Reports on Accident to a Viking and Aerovan : Slump in Market for American Light Aircraft INTERNATIONAL AIR FARES THE three I.A.T.A. Traffic Conferences at Rio de Janeiroconcluded with unanimously approved resolutions to intro-duce uniform world-wide rates for passengers and cargo. International changes generally will be kept at their presentlevel during the coming winter, with the exception of fares on the North Atlantic route for which the Conferences haverecommended an increase of £6 4s id to £86 17s for the six- month period commencing March 1st, to cover increased opera-tional costs, particularly of fuel and labour. The Conferences also agreed to merge the existing classification of air freightand air express (the reservation of freight space) into a single category of international air cargo and to allow reductionsof 25 per cent on all shipments over 100 1b anywhere in the world. Both these recommendations are, of course, subjectto Government approval. Agreement has also been achieved for the first time on triefollowing international air tariffs: Ten per cent discount on round-the-world trips; for children between two and twelve adiscount of 50 per cent, and for infants below two a go per cent discount. Free baggage allowances of 30 kilos (66 lb)on international flights, with the exception of short hauls in Europe on which gratis allowance will be 20 kilos (44 lb) andcertain round-the-world flights, which will have a free allow- ance of 40 kilos (88 ib). Fixed excess baggage charge of oneper cent of one-way passenger fare per kilo (2.2 lb) with one minor exception Institution of round trip excursion fares ofone-and-a-quarter times one-way fare at carrier's discretion. Round trip discounts on air portions of trips involving bothsurface and air transport. SWEDISH AMALGAMATION '"THE two Swedish'airlines, S.I.L.A.. the private company, A and A.B.A., the company with large government share holdings, are to be amalgamated. The precise terms of the amalgamation are not yet known, and will depend largely upon the report of a Commission which has recently returned to Stockholm from a tour of America. The new airline- will be known as A.B.A., and is expected to have a share capital of £4,175,000, of which the government will own half, but thefinal capital amount will probably be raised to nearly £7,000,000 by a government loan. The new company willtake over the S.I.L.A. interest in Scandinavian Airlines System, and it is understood that both Norway and Denmarkhave been informed of the proposed amalgamation. : : CAB. AGENCY RULING -'\-•' QINCE Pan American Airways started operations across the»J North Atlantic in 1939, United States Lines, the American shipping company, have acted as sales agents in Europe for theairline. The Civil Aeronautics Board has recently directed that since the two companies are operating services in competi-tion with each other it cannot permit one to act as agent for the other. After January 21st, therefore, Pan-American Air-ways will organize their own booking and passenger handling. FIRST POST-WAR MASTER PILOTC APTAIN JOHN WOODMAN, one of B.O.A.C.'s atlantic captains, with 8,500 frying hours to his credit,, 'is the first pilot to be awarded the British Master Pilot's Certifi- cate since the end of the war. Captain Woodman came to England in 1934 an<^ learned to fly with Surrey Flying Services. Two years later he was a First Officer with Imperial Airways, operating on the Johannes- burg-Kisumu route, and the following year transferred to the route between Khartoum, Sudan and West Africa, which he continued to fly after the outbreak of war. In 1943 he was posted as a pilot on the B.O.A.C. return ferry service, and has been flying the Atlantic ever since. The machinery for issuing the British Master Pilot's Certi- ficate is at present under discussion, and in future it may be issued by G.A.P.A.N. It will not be included in the regula- tions for pilots' licences under the I.C.A.O. requirements, and it will therefore have no practical value. It may l>e continued however as a diploma and so maintain its prestige value. The certificate as it stands may be issued for either land or marine aircraft, or both, to holders of "B" licences who have held them for at least five years, and the applicants must also hold
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