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1948
1948 - 1710.PDF
456 FLIGHT OCTOBER 14TH, 1948 Civil Aviation News had been seconded from B.O.A.C., but direct employees are being steadily recruited and an extensive apprenticeship scheme for local boys has been started. All pilots are for the time being English, but half the company's radio officers are Malayans. ASSISTING MSITORS TO FRANCE AIR TRAFFIC, LTD., a company formed in December,1947, to provide assistance to British air charter com- panies, aircraft contractors, clubs and private owners landing in France, has nearly completed its first year of activities at Toussus-le-Noble, and has just opened an establishment at Le Bourget. A third staging, post is to be opened at Nice follow-ing the successful outcome of present administrative problems and negotiations. The services offered by Air Traffic, Ltd.,include the meeting of all private and charter aircraft by English-speaking staff who escort passengers through police,customs and currency, formalities. For those in transit a waiting-room is provided until the aircraft is ready to leaveagain, while for those staying overnight transport is arranged to hotels at which accommodation arrangements are made.Similar services are offered to crews of machines arriving at Toussus-le-Noble and the staff, in addition to helping withthe usual formalities, translates met. reports and assists pilots in preparation of flight plans. Refuelling, hangarage, engineheaters and starters are included in the service, and currency exchange facilities are provided for air crews. BREVITIES B.O.A.C. offices in Malta will be taken over at the end of October by B.E.A., Alitalia, Malta Airways and Air Malta. B.O.A.C. aircraft on the Damascus and Persian Gulf routes, and also on the route to Ceylon, will continue to stop at Malta. * # * On October 4th British European Airways re-introducedthe Jersey-Rennes service with Rapide aircraft. The flight will take about 50 minutes and will be^ flown weekly in each direc-tion leaving on Monday mornings and returning the same afternoon. * * * Twenty-four Martin 2-0-2 airliners have been grounded byNorthwest Airlines as a result of an accident investigation. A Martin 2-0-2 crashed on August 29th, and it is thought thatit " may have come apart when it was hit by tornadic winds." * * * It is understood that representatives of air transport com-panies from Eastern European countries met recently at Prague to discuss administrative, tactical and financial problems. Themeeting was attended by delegations from Russia, Czecho- slovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. * * » Two new branches of the Society of Licensed AircraftEngineers have been formed at Gatwick and North Cumber- land. Mr. Collins, service manager of Airwork, Limited, hasbeen elected chairman of the Gatwick branch, and Mr. H. Jackson of the North Cumberland branch. One of the mainobjects in forming the latter was to set up instructional classes for student members studying for maintenance engi-neers' licences. * • * A regular air service between Ceylon and the United King-dom with stops at Madras, Bombay and Pakistan, is expected to begin in November, according to a recent statement bySir John Kotalawala, Ceylon Transport Minister. The Minister was to conclude the agreement between India and Ceylon atDelhi on October 6th. Aer Lingus have announced reductions in winter fares witheffect from October 31st. Simultaneously, excursion fares will be introduced on the major cross-Channel routes. Forexample, a 10-day excursion fare of £12. 12s will be available for mid-week travellers on the Dublin-London service. Onother cross-Channel routes 3-day excursions will be made valid for all days of the week. The winter time-table provides^ services a week between Dublin and London and 23 a week between Dublin and the north of England. * # * Since British civil aircraft joined the Berlin air lift onJune 30th, they have flown about 7,500,000 miles in more than 22,000 sorties. During that time British aircraft have delivered35 per cent of the total of 273,993 metric tons of supplies, and an average of nearly 200 sorties daily is being flown. * * * British South American Airways has negotiated the purchaseof five Avro Tudor V aircraft. This type is a freighter version- of the Tudor II, and will be put into service on the Berlinair lift as soon as conversion irom passenger accommodation has been completed. The Corporation already has one TudorIV in service on the airlift and another one in preparation. * » # Statistics issued by British European Airways for the monthof August maintain the steady increase over last year's returns. The total of 84,252 passengers carried was an increase of 7,221over August, 1947, freight carried was nearly doubled at 830,029 lb, while mail was considerably more than doubled at522,667 lb. Route mileage has decreased in the U.K. services from 6,448 to 4,371, but increased slightly on Continentalservices from 11,188 to 11,691. * * * Air France are planning an extensive freight network whichstarted with the opening of two lines during the first week of October linking the silk and industrial centre of Lyons withthe North African commercial town of Algiers, and another linking Algiers with Oran and Casablanca, Morocco. Thecompany will fly Languedoc aircraft once a week carrying between 10,000 and 12,000 lb of freight.There will be an enormous saving in time on the Lyons-Algiers direct air servicewhen compared with the rail and boat surface route. Although the chargeworks out at approximately is 3d a mile, there will be very considerable saving in •insurance and packing costs, and, of course, in the quicker turnover of stock.Following the amalgamation of the Air France Glasgow-Paris and Manchester-Paris services, a reduction in fares has been made. * * * Although operations across the NorthAtlantic this winter will be on a similar scale to those of last winter, an increasein the sleeper accommodation is expected. Air France, which has been operating onesleeper a week, has already increased this to two, and the French company is alsoincreasing the total flights to. eight A week between New York an<i_P;iris ' FlightFLYING HIGH: s_fica undergoing altitude tests. Number two is expected to fly in a week or so and then proceed with overseas proving flights. B 12
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