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AUGUST I2TH, I948 ILAVIAT 175 N NEWS Canadian Pacific Route : U.S. Mail Su bsidy Inadequate: Other Aircrew Salaries ^^r^MINISTERS TOUR "• ' ',*:•'•. T ORD PAKENHAM, Minister of Civil Aviation, left Northolt -L' for Renfrew on August ,7th, on his way to attend a meet- ing of the Scottish Advisory Council on Civil Aviation in Glas- gow. Afterwards he was to fly to the Western Isles to inspect some of .the five M.C-A. airports in the Hebrides. On Monday the Minister was jk>. fly to Northern Ireland, where he was due to meet the Chairman and members of the Northern Ireland Advisory Council on Civil Aviation, and lunch with the Rt. Hon. Sir Roland Nugent, Northern Ireland Minister of Com- merce. In Dublin Lord Pakenham expected to meet members of the board of Aer Lingus. : -. C.P.A. PACIFIC ROUTEA S mentioned in Flight, August 5th, air services are to be started across the Pacific Ocean from Canada to Asia and Australia by Canadian Pacific Air Lines, a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railways. Two routes will be operated, one from Vancouver to Sydney through Honolulu, Canton Island and Fiji with a connecting service from Fiji to New Zealand; and the other route from Vancouver to Hong Kong through the Aleutian Islands, Kodiak and Shemya, Tokyo and Shanghai. The services will be operated with four Canadair Four aircraft as soon as the equipment is ready. S.A.S. ANNWERSARY CCANDINAVIAN AIRLINES SYSTEM celebrates its second 4 ^ anniversary on August 1st. The past two years havemarked a rapid development of the airline which now operates over 9,300 miles connecting Scandinavia with some 70 towns on four continents. Nine flights are made each week to New York and two to Rio de Janiero and Buenos Aires. During the two years S.A.S. has made 1,222 Atlantic crossings and carried 33.183. passengers, 433.454 kilos of freight, 804,738 kilos of baggages and 238,804 kilos of mail. The S.A.S. fleet now numbers 89 aircraft including 16 DC-6s, ninfr DC-4S and 50 DC-3S, four Vickers Vikings and three Sandringham Mark 6 flying boats. During 1949 the company expect to take de- livery of four Boeing Stratocruisers and ten Saab Scandias. US DOMESTIC OPERATIONS AT a meeting of the stockholders of United Air Lines, the •** American airline, Mr. W. A. Patterson, president of the company, reported net earnings of £77,670 for the second quar- ter of 1948, as compared with a net loss of £887,633 for the first quarter Despite that, however, the overall loss for the first half of 1948 was £809,963, as compared with a loss of 4800,050 for the first half of 1947. He criticized the Civil Aeronautics Board for its failure to establish permanent air "toil rates for the company and grant adequate temporary rates. The charge per ton-mile of mail hi 194-1, he said, was 5s 6d, :but despite rising operation and maintenance costs the • company now. received 44 per cent less than .the 1941 ratean<i 57 per cent less than the 1939 rate. In the first six CONTROL PRACTICE : Operators ot Idlewiid Airport controlling aircraft during practice circuits before it was opened on July 1st. It is understood that the airport will have 15 of the largest hangers'in the world, and it is intended that eventually it will be equipped to handle 3,000 aircraft a day on six runways. months of this year total operating expenses increased 8£ percent, although during the sanie period general and administra- tive expenses had decreased 20 per cent and traffic, sales andadvertising expenses had decreased 6| per cent. Giving de- tailed figures, Mr. Patterson stated that for the first half of thisyear operating revenues totalled £8,661,457, compared with £7,544,822 for the corresponding period the previous year, aridoperating expenses were £9,450,767 as against £8,697,838 in 1947. • •• • -• - ' .•-:-...• • - Operational figures published in the report showed that in the second quarter of 1948 revenue passenger miles totalled 339,011,011 as against 325,190,689 a year ago; mail ton-miles,2 -I74.456 as against 2,222,955 ; and freight ton-miles, 5,135,599 as against 1,877,890. The company was operating a fleet of 141 aircraft, delivery of a further six DC-6 aircraft would bring the company's fleet of that type to 39. Seven Boeing Stratocruisers were also on order, and scheduled for delivery in 1949- In further comment on the report, Mr. Patterson said that the air transport industry in the United States had exerted every possible effort towards economy in order to maintain passenger fares at the 1041 level, but -that was not possible, and the industry could not be expected to accomplish some- thing that other forms of transportation had been unable to do in the face of rising costs. In conclusion, the president criticized the Civil Aeronautics Board for failing to note and act upon the recommendations of the President's Air Policy Commission and the Congressional Aviation Policy Board, and urged that the Board should now accept and discharge its responsibilities with vigorous leadership and realistic action. RADIO COMMUNICATIONS IN EAST AFRICAT O cater for the rapidly expanding aviation services, both local and trunk routes, a new system of short-wave radio communications is being planned for Kenya, Uganda and Tan- ganyika. A total of 48 Marconi short-wave transmitters including two of the latest types of instrument are to be installed for this service. These new types of transmitter are the Marconi TGS.541, a 200-watt transmitter with a frequency range of 1.5 to 23 Me/s, and Type TGS.501, a 100-watt set covering a frequency of 1.5 to 13 Mc/s. Both types are designed for operation on radio-telephony or telegraphy and include crystal" control with provision for the rapid selection of any one of six working frequencies, a useful asset where a large volume of traffic is handled. The first of these trans- mitters is to be installed at Mbeya airfield, Kenya. AIRLINE CREWS' SALARIEST HE National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport has announced a scale of fixed salaries for radio officers, engineer officers and navigating officers of the three British Corporations. The salary scales for radio officers class B are £550 p:a, minimum and £700,-p.a. maximum, and for class, A £725 to £850. The three classes of engineer officers "are:
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