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DECEMBER I8TH, 1947 FLIGHJ 701 Civil Aviation News . . return, includes stops at Marseilles andAthens and a night stop at Rome. * • * During n years of operation Austra-lian National Airways have carried 1,590,000 passengers and have flown71,500,000 miles. During the first year of operation, 1936, 7,265 passengers werecarried, and last year 470,000 travelled in the company's aircraft. A deputation of M.P.s who haveformed a N.E. Joint Airport Committee, has been informed by Mr. Lindgren thatWest Boldon is to be adopted as the main North-Eastern airport. This doesnot mean, it is understood, that work will now start, but it does mean thatthe site will be scheduled and earmarked under the Town and Country PlanningAct. Last week we referred to New- castle Council's decision to postpone con-sideration of major improvements to Woolsington. CLUB CHIPMUNK : Mr. C. S. J. Ashley, chief instructor of Loxham's Flying Services Ltd., giving dual instruction over Blackpool in the company's first Chipmunk. Loxham's have ordered altogether three of these Canadian D.H. trainers. The second assembly of I.C.A.O. is to be held in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, and is to begin on June 1st, 1948, lasting about three weeks. * * * At a conference of postmasters-general held in India it was decided to make arrangements to speed up air mail services and to launch a campaign to restore the efficiency of the services affected by partition. ^ c : * • » .-...-.. Gibraltar (North Front) airfield is under R.A.F. control, and Notice to Airmen No. 356 of 1947 gives details of the pro- cedure necessary for non-scheduled flights using the airfield. * * *Pan American Airways have reduced the sleeper fare on their non-stop service between New York and London by $25 toSioo. This is a supplement to the ordinary fare of $325. ». # *Two new positions for Assistant Safety Directors have been created by the American C.A.B. One is to take charge of safety regulation, the other is to supervise accident investigations. Until the post of Safety Bureau Director is filled, the new officials will report directly to the C.A.B. * « * Notice to Airmen No. 355, 1947, includes a list of Met. stations giving services available to civil pilots in the U.K., and the categories into which they fall. The same notice cancels No. 226 of 1947. * * * <"'-.' Aer Lingus has made its first post-war increases in fares on services, to London, Liverpool, Glasgow and Manchester. The new' rates amount to 11J per cent more on the existing Dublin-London single fare and are 31.7 per cent higher than pre-war fares at £7 3s. The old rate was £6 10s. * * • Air cargo rates between the U.S.A. and the principal citiesof South America served jointly by Pan American World Air- ways and Pan American-Grace Airways ("Panagra") havebeen reduced. On shipments of over 100 lb, rates will be 36 per cent lower and on smaller lots there is nearly as substantiala reduction. It is expected that many traffics will be brought within the economic limits of air transport and that ton-mileageincreases will be substantial. * * • Bishop's Court airfield is to be handed over by the R.A.F.to be used as an alternative airfield to Nutt's Corner, Belfast, in bad weather. B.E.A. are to provide passenger handlingfacilities. * » * British South American Airways have new administrativeheadquarters in London at Starways House, King Street, St. James, S.W.i (Whitehall 4366). * # * Cable and Wireless, Ltd., have been having trouble with theaddresses on telegrams sent to passengers at airports, and are asking that such addresses should contain the word '' passen-ger," the name of the airport and the airline concerned, together with the flight or trip number. * * » The strike of Swedish Airlines employees, which started onNovember 28th after a month's negotiations had broken down, is expected by the President of the airline, Capt. Carl Florman,to last as long as two months. The strikers demand consider- able wage increases, free working clothing and a 40-hour week.Foreign airlines are to continue to run to Sweden, but the air- port buses to Stockholm, four miles away, are not running. * * » United Air Lines has asked the American C.A.B. to increaseits air-mail rates from 45 cents a ton-mile to 2.26 dollars for this year, retrospective to January 1st, and 1.25 dollars for1948. This amends an earlier petition asking for a one-dollar rate. U.A.L. says that the 5-cent air-mail postage was estab-lished during the war, when 20 million ton-miles of mail a year was handled. This has now sunk to an estimated 9 millionton-miles, while costs have risen. A loss of approximately z\ million dollars is forecast for the whole ot 1947 operations,despite high passenger and freight load factors. FROM THE CLUBS The annual general meeting of the United Services Flying Club was scheduled for December 15th, at Elstree airfield, with tea and a "race meeting" to follow. * * # During 1947, over 1,000 hours were flown without mishap by the aircraft of the Midland Bank Flying Club and the year ends with the obtaining of the club's 50th post war "A" licence, while the more advanced of the ab initio members are up to the standards of cross-country flying and aerobatics. » « # Since December 15th the Plymouth and District Aero Clubhas had the use of the whole of its pre-war clubhouse, which has been vacated by the R.A.F., and in future the club will beopen on Mondays as well as the other days of the iveek. Mem- bership has passed 300 and is increasing, and in August 230 hours were flown with the club's aircraft, which consist of twoAusters, a Fairchild and a Tiger Moth. This rummer, one of the Austers was flown to Geneva by a member, and the samemember flew there again in the Fairchild, which was also flown to Brussels twice and to Amsterdam. Although rates for theAusters and Tiger Moth remain at £3 an hour and for the Fairchild at ^5, the "fly yourself" hire enables members toshare the cost and to make long journeys at less than the ordin- ary airline fares. * # # In spite of the November weather and the shortening days,the Cambridge University Aero Club flew 94 hours in the brighter and less gusty spells, and during the month five abinitio members and five experienced pilots became members. Several members have taken advantage of the night flying andinstrument flying facilities available.
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