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1948
1948 - 0895.PDF
JUNE 17TH. 1948 FLIGHT 655 CIVIL FITAP Accepted by I.C.A.O.: In- ternal Charter Routes Granted. N NEWS ONE OF NINE: West African Airways Corpora- tion operate nine de Havilland Doves within Nigeria and the Cold Coast and between those two colonies and Sierra Leone and Gambia. A tenth Dove is expected in August, and later in the year yet another will be employed for photographic purposes. FIRST INDIAN SER VICEO N Wednesday, June gth, the first Air-India InternationalConstellation landed at London Airport and made history as the first Asian airline to link the East and West withscheduled services. Owing to trouble in the Middle East the schedule is governed by regulations which stipulate no landingor take-off between sunset and sunrise at Basra or Cairo. Con- sequently A-I.J. Constellations arrive at Basra after sunrise,re-fuel and fly through Cairo and Geneva arriving at London Airport just before midnight.In a greeting to guests at a celebration of the inaugural flight, Mr. Tata, managing director of Air-India, Ltd., suggested apossible future service to East Africa after frequencies on the London service had been stepped up. The High Commissionerof India Mr. Krishna Menon, representatives of Pakistan, other international airlines in London, and of the M.C.A.. were alsopresent. CHARTER FEDERATION RECOGNIZEDT HE International Federation of Independent Air Transportheld a general meeting in Paris on June 7th and 8th. The Federation has now been accepted by l.C.A.O. as an observerat meetings of the Assembly and of the Organization's various Divisions. Representatives of the Federation have alreadyattended meetings of the Fal Division of the General Assembly &t Geneva. The Federation intend to follow the work ofI.C.A.O. and ensure that independent companies' interests are adequately covered and expressed. The Federation hopesthat national associations of independent operators will be formed in all countries where charter companies are established,and that those associations will join the Federation in order that independent operators can be linked together in the sameway as the national airlines work together in I.A.T.A. AIRWAYS TRAINEES' RE-UNIONI N the library at Londonderry House on Friday, June nth,the first annual re-union dinner of the Imperial Airways commercial trainees,, was held. Of the 70 persons who com-menced their careers in air transport with Imperial Airways under the scheme inaugurated in 1929, and which continueduntil nationalization in 1939, 25 were collected together for the re-union. Only 2 of those present were no longer connectedwith air transport. The 70 persons are carrying on air trans- port in 22 countries, and the average continuous air transportexperience was 14 years, excluding, of course, the guests who were present. There were four guests of honour: Mr. G. E.Woods Humphrey, the former managing director of Imperial Airways, A. Cdre. A. W. Fletcher, who was the original founderof the Airways scheme in 1929 when general services manager, Mr. Dennis Handover, who at the time of the inaugurationwas staff manager and is now chairman of Scandinavian Air- lines System, and the fourth guest of honour was A. Cdre. H. G.Brackley, then air superintendent Imperial Airways, and now chief executive of B.S.A.A. INDEPENDENT BRITISH AIRLINES TT is some satisfaction to the British Air Charter Association,•*• Ltd., and all charter operators that the Minister of Civil Aviation has seen fit to allow greater freedom for independentoperators. The suggestion that charter companies should be made associates of B.E.A.C. came from the Association, a movewhich will give the companies some of that freedom which has been lacking since the war. Licences have already been granted to the following com-panies for operating scheduled services in the United King- dom : —Western Airways and Cambrian Air Services, Cardiff—Weston; Olley Air Services, Ltd., Croydon—Newmarket, and Croydon—Cowes; Northern Air Charter, Newcastle—Isle ofMan; Carlisle Air Navigation and Training, Carlisle—Isle of Man; British Air Transport, Croydon—Cowes; Patrick-DuvalAviation, Birmingham—Isle of Man, Birmingham—Liverpool, and Birmingham—Southampton ; Lancashire Aircraft Corpora-tion, Leeds (Yeadon)—Isle of Man; Air Enterprises, Ltd., Croydon—Cowes (Somerton), Southampton—Cowes; ManxAir Charters, Ltd., Isle of Man—Carlisle; Scottish Aviation, Carlisle—Isle of Man, and Prestwick—Blackpool; WestCumberland Air Services, Carlisle (Kingstown)—Isle of Man. The Ministry of Civil Aviation is considering a number ofother requests from charter companies and is also making arrangements for Kingstown airport to be licensed. I.CA.O. OFFICERS AT the meeting of I.C.A.O.'s Second Assembly held in•f* Geneva on June 2nd, Mr. Max Hymans, French Secretary of Civil Aviation, was elected president, and the five vice-chair-men who were also elected are: Vice-Commodore Juan Fran- cisco (Argentina), Sir Frederick Tymms (U.K.), Dr. Nanju Wu(Minister of China to Switzerland), Mr. Jan W. F. Backer (Netherlands), and Mr. Timothy O'Driscoll (Ireland). Chair-men of the Organization's four commissions, who were elected on the same day, are as follows: Technical Commission, Mr.M. T. Obregon (Colombia); Economic, Mr. Paul T. David (U.S.); Administrative, Mr. N. C. Ghosh (India); and LegalCommission, Mr. Andre Garnault (France). The Facilitation Division of I.C.A.O. which was in sessionfor two weeks last month under the chairmanship of Mr. P. L. Young, of Canada, has issued a draft series of standardsand recommended practices designed to minimize existing regulations with particular reference to customs, immigrationand public health formalities and cargo and currency trans- actions. Member states were urged to establish committeescomposed of representatives of public authorities and travel
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