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1948
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654 October Aircraft Exports and Imports : Ambassador Full Load Flight Tests : FLIGHT DECEMBER 2ND, 1948 £ CIVTL AVIATION NEWS Light Aircraft Main- tenance Schedules TUDOR IV : In addition to Lancastrians used by B.S.A.A. on the Lisbon-Azores route to South America and Yorks which fly via Lisbon, Dakar, Natal to Buenos Aires, Tudor IVs are used on the services which fly via Iceland, Gander, Bermuda and Jamaica. The Tudor service operates once a week to Jamaica. I.A.T.A. AGREEMENT ON FUTURE AIR RATES DESPITE generally rising costs of equipment, fuel, materialand services, agreement to maintain rates for passenger fares and cargo on international scheduled airlines throughout nextsummer was unanimously reached by representatives of I.A.T.A. member companies in the recent Bermuda meetingreferred to in Flight, November 4th. Except for small increases between Europe and South America and' minor adjustmentselsewhere, basic passenger fares and cargo rates for the entire international system served by the 71 members of I.A.T.A. willgenerally remain unchanged. An intensive study has been begun of the possibilities of introducing tourist class rates forworld air travel by the autumn of 1949. Present rate resolu- tions expire on April 1st, 1949 and those recommended at theBermuda meeting will be effective until the end of September, 1949. A special committee of airline traffic executives has beenappointed to explore the entire problem of tourist rates and to report to another I.A.T.A. conference meeting scheduled forMay, 1949. If their report is acceptable to the Conference tourist rates could be introduced by October, 1949, whereverthere is the public demand and to the limit of available equip- ment. This committee will also study the question of specialrates for out-of-season travel, excursion fares and other means of cutting the cost of air transport. Mr. W. G. Lipscomb,Chairman of the Bermuda Conference, announced that the meeting devoted a considerable amount of time to the discus-sion of lower rates on a world wide basis, and members of I.A.T.A. were unanimous in their desire to be of greaterservice to the public and to make their facilities available to an expanding market. The public demand for a cheaper airtransport, in addition to maintaining the present standards of service, could not be ignored, Mr. Lipscomb said. The aimsof the Association are to develop a pattern which will be attractive not only to travellers flying for business purposesbut also to tourists and holiday-makers who, having only a short while at their disposal, must travel as rapidly and aseconomically as possible. In this connection Mr. Lipscomb referred to a speech which had previously been made by SirWilliam Hildred, Director General of I.A.T.A., who held that air transport should be available for the holiday travel ofthose of moderate means, and that airlines would wish to make this possible at the earliest opportunity because it wouldbenefit operators, the individual travellers and the peoples of the countries to which they were flying. Among the 90 airlineexecutives present at Bermuda were Mr. P. C. F. Lawton, B.E.A., Chairman of Traffic Conference No. 2, and Mr. C. W.Nielson of Qantas, Chairman of Traffic Conference No. 3. AIRPORT TRAFFIC IN OCTOBER MINISTRY of Civil Aviation statistics for October showthat Northolt was the busiest airport during the month, handling 43,846 scheduled passengers compared with 33,387 scheduled passengers at London Airport. Of the 1,358 scheduled aircraft movements 923 were by U.K. operators and 435 by foreign operators. At London Airport 964 scheduled aircraft movements were made up of 198 by U.K. operators and 766 by foreign operators. Aberdeen (Dyce)Belfast (Nutts Corner) ... Birmingham (Elmdon) ... Blackpool (Squire's Gate) Bovingdon Cardiff (Pengam Moorr) .. All aircraft movements Arr 770 891 963 1,022 488 376 Croydon : 848 Edinburgh (Turnhouse) . 568 Gatwick 468 Hurn 783 Isle of Man (Ronaldsway). Liverpool (Speke)London Airport ... Manchester (Ringway) ... Northolt Nottingham (Tollerton). Prestwick Renfrew Southampton (Eastleigh). Southampton Water Weston-super-Mare Yeadon 339 794 1.424 870 1,702 482 S77 423 1,227 330 527 736 Dep 770 891 965 1,022 492 377 853 567 465 781 339 8021,426 868 1.695 482 574 426 1,225 330 530 733 Scheduled movements Arr 155 252 0 65 19 127 37 102 0 5 180 184 964 207 1,358 ' 0 312 349 137 35 127 1 Dep 153 252 0 65 19 127 37 102 0 4 180 184 977 211 1,353 0 302 350 136 38 127 1 Scheduled niffGAniiAMpassengers * 7,322 * * —t827 1,170 1,919 —t18 3,719 5,24133,387 4,206 43,846 * 3,058 8,667 2,612 1,202 • * * Non-Customs airports. AMBASSADOR t M.C.A. Returns not available. TRIALS AT MAXIMUM WEIGHT THE first prototype of the Airspeed Ambassador was onNovember 17th flown at a weight of 52,0001b. Although originally designed for much lower weights the first prototypewas used for this test since the second prototype, though desinged for a higher all-up weight, is not equipped with meansof jettisoning ballast. The weight therefore represented a considerable overload for the first prototype aircraft. On thesetrials the load was. increased in four successive increments, the aircraft being first flown from the grass runway at Christ-church and later from the short (1,300 yd) runway at the B 12 ;s:
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