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FLIGHT JANUARY 22ND, 194S Civil Aviation News :hat the early structural requirements were always in the formof text books, but have by a gradual process been reduced to basic requirements. Similarly, emphasis in the future is likelyto be on performance and handling of aircraft and in time the same simplification will develop. The British requirementsare based on those recommended by I.C.A.O. which are to be enforced by 1953. Ultra light aircraft are not covered but aseparate publication frould be issued if required. A SKYWAYS AIRLINE IN the absence of any British airline to carry mail betweenthe island of Mauritius and Kenya, Skyways have started, by arrangement with the Colonial Office, a weekly service from Nairobi, stopping at Dar-es-Salaam and Tananarive, to Mauritius with 15-seater Lancastrians. Passengers, mail and freight will be carried and the company's headquarters will be at Nairobi. IRISH AIRLINES LOSSES THE report and accounts of *&er Lingus for the year endingMarch 31st, 1947, show a loss of ^134,156. In the pre- vious year the airline had shown a small operating profit of£8,566. Although traffic had increased 3J times during the year, from 21,630 to 76,300 passengers, operating and generalixpenses had also risen. The rate of traffic increase had ;limbed more steeply in the remaining nine months of 1947,during which period Aer Lingus had carried an average of 13,000 passengers a month. It is interesting to note that thecompany carried in September last 21,269 passengers—equiva- lent to the total for the year 1946. At the end of March, 1947,Irish Airlines were operating four routes, Dublin to London, Liverpool, Paris and Shannon, but since that date frequencieshad been increased on the routes to London and Liverpool and new routes had been opened to Amsterdam through Man-chester, to Brussels and Rome and between Belfast-Glasgow and Shannon-London. Constellations were introduced on theDublin-London route and plans were going ahead for operating up to six services daily on that route. Mr. John Leydon,chairman of the Board, in his report stated that no new European routes were envisaged for 1948, but Aer Lingus wouldconsolidate and develop the services which had already been opened. The loss, he said, was attributable to expenditurenecessarily incurred in training and development. In order to meet expected commitments they had had to expand rapidlyin all directions by recruiting and training staff and securing accommodation. A serious situation had confronted the company when it be-came almost impossible to secure spares in adequate quantities for their Dakotas. Aer Lingus then purchased Viking aircraftatid received delivery between June and September, 1947. Later in the year, however, the Dakota spares position im-proved, and when the company found themselves with more aircraft than the programme warranted, it was decided to 'ZECH TWIN : The Aero 45, built by the National Aviation Works, is an all-metal enclosed cabin machine to carry four people. It has a maximum speed of 174 m.p.h., a cruising speed of 152 m.p.h. and a cruising range of 621 miles. dispose of the Vikings. The fleet would now consist of eie;hiDakota passenger aircraft and two Dakota freighters. Th< Constellations on the London and long-distance Europeanroutes were hired from Aerlinte Eireann. The reduction in fleet had involved a review of the staff position which affectedprincipally those in the engineering and maintenance branches. The chairman referred to what he considered to be the mostimportant event in the company's history and which had occurred during the year under review: On July 1st B.O.A.C.and on August 1st B.E.A.C. had become shareholders in the company to the extent of 10 and 30 per cent respectively.The arrangement based on the agreement between the com- panies gave effect to an agreement between the governmentsof the two countries. Its significance, Mr. Leydon said, ex- tended far beyond the field of commercial aviation and itspotentialities which extended into the future had yet to be fully realized. In conclusion Mr. Leydon emphasized that theproportion of total revenue represented by earnings on the carriage of mail was microscopic by comparison with nearlyevery other airline in the world. It entailed crippling financial expenditure, and he hoped that it would be remedied in t|;s.near future. TUDOR VIII WORK on/the preliminary power installation for the four-Nene TPudor VIII is going ahead at Rolls-Royce, although progress was held up for some time for lack of an Avro wingjig. The beautifully shaped nacelle sections for the forward intakes and the after fairings are nearly finished, and thereare reasonable grounds for belief that first flight of the proto- type will take, place within a few months. B.E.A. SUMMER SCHEDULES B.E.A. have already made plans for high-frequency air ser-vices next summer to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. All these will operate with Dakota aircraft exceptthe service to Alderney and the inter-island flights between Jersey and Guernsey which will continue to be flown withRapides. The new summer schedules, which are due to come into operation on April 18th, have been drawn up as a resultof the experience of last summer's capacity bookings, especi- ally at week-ends. A daily, non-stop service is being intro-duced between Northolt and the Isle of Man, taking just under two hours. Manchester, Glasgow and Blackpool will be linkedto the island by two daily flights each way and Belfast and Carlisle by one; from Liverpool there will be four to sevendaily flights each way according to the season and the day of the week. Between April 18th and May 30th Channel Islandvisitors will have five daily services between Northolt and Jersey at week-ends and four in mid-week. From May 31stthese will be increased to nine at week-ends and seven on week-days. From April 18th there will also be two returnflights daily between London and Guernsey; from Southamp- ton Jersey has two, Guernsey three and Alderney two. Atotal of 14 to 16 flights daily link the three main Channel Islands and this inter-island service will operate at high fre-quency between Jersey and Guernsey. _ AUSTRALIAN DISPUTE CONTINUES $< T^URTHER developments in the dif-•*- ferences between private enterprise and the Australian Government indicatethat Australian National Airways have not so far paid the air route landingcharges for the use of airports and navi- gation aids, levied by the Government.The general manager of the company, Mr. H. F. Walsh, declares that they haveno intention of paying the charges as they consider them invalid. This willthrow the onus of suing the company on to the Department of Civil Aviation, andis a new step in the fight between private enterprise and Government monopoly,since, on all previous occasions involving legal action the initiative has been takenby the Airline companies. Air Marshal Williams, Director-General of Civil Avia-tion, has stated that he has no official indication of the company's refusal topay the dues and has refused to make any comment. Mr. A. W. Coles, chair-man of the Airline Commission, has said that the Commission has not yet madeany decision on a proposal to reduce fares to a basis below that of first-classrail fares, but that this will be con-
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