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JANUARY 2OTH, 1949 FLIGHT 81 Mi!«s Flown 366 Miiiion Passengers Carrte 119.343 t * Mcsif Carried 4886 Tons This diagrammatic representation of the traffic figures for B.O.A.C. during 1948 was submitted by a member of the staff of the Cor- poration. During the year B.O.A.C. flew 27,165,211 aircraft ser- vice miles. It is rather interesting that in the same period the " Queen Mary " made 40 crossings of the Atlantic ANOTHER B.S.A.A. SUBSIDIARY BAHAMAS AIRWAYS, LTD., has now become a subsidiaryof B.S.A.A., and will continue to operate services between Nassau and the islands of the Bahamas with amphibians andflying-boats, and fly charters to Florida, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti. The Chairman of the Board is the Hon. H. G. Christie,who held the controlling interest in the company, and B.S.A.A. is represented by its Chairman, Mr. J. W. Booth. The Hon.D. K. Solomon, C.B.E., K.C., President of the Legislative Council, and Mr. D. B. McKinney, a member of the BahamasHouse of Assembly, are also on the Board. The Managing Director, W/C. D. R. Cameron, was formerly B.S.A.A.'s localmanager at Nassau. At present the fleet consists of a Consoli- dated Commodore flying-boat, a Catalina amphibian, twoGrumman Goose amphibians, and a Seabee amphibian. Together with another subsidiary company, British WestIndies Airways, Ltd., with headquarters at Trinidad, Bahamas Airways, Ltd., will provide valuable feeder services to theB.S.A.A. main routes through the Caribbean, operating to countries along the Central American seaboard, North andSouth America. AIRCRAFT ORDERING REVISED AFTER much criticism of the system for ordering aircraftfor British Airways, the Government sought the advice of Mr. Hanbury-Williams, Chairman of Courtauld's, Sir RolandSmith, Managing Director of Ford's, and Mr. George Wans- brough, Chairman of Reyrolle, last February. Following theirrecommendations, the Government has now decided to change the existing procedure, in which the Ministry of Supply actedas agents for the Ministry of Civil Aviation or the Airways Corporations in placing production contracts for civil aircraft.In future the Corporations will be able to place contracts with aircraft manufacturers for production aircraft. Developmentwork will, however, remain in the general control of the Minis- try of Supply since aircraft development is largely financedfrom public funds. Machinery has been set up for agreeing the stage in the development of an aircraft type at which theCorporation may place the production contract. The Govern- ment believe that the new arrangements will provide a satis-factory and workable procedure in which the interests of all concerned, including the commercial requirements of the Air-ways Corporations, will be fully safeguarded. of Aircraft Engineers Licensed in Cate- gories "A" and "C"; Notice No. 6, Issue 9, containing general information of British Civil Airworthiness Require- ments ; Notice No. 7, with particulars of Sections and Sub-sections issued on British Civil Airworthiness Require- ments; and Notice No. 10, Issue 3, with Ratings of Categories of Aircraft Mainten- ance Engineers' Licences. B.E. C iteaory Passenger flights completed ... Distance flown—miles Passengers carried Excess Baggage carried—Ib... Mail carried—Ib Freight carried—Ib. ... Route Distance—miles A. TRAFFIC IN NOVEMBER 1948 U.K. Services Nov 1947 3.048 358,167 16,207 32,051 159,253 90,511 •4,255 Nov 1948 2,549 242,085 13,934 23.065 192,404 140,593 2,801 Continents Nov 1947 896 408,188 9,660 81,086 111,962 357,197 9,035 LI Service! Nov 1948 933 394,355 7,688 47,756 200,865 565,497 10,980 Total Nov 1947 3,944 767.355 25,867 113,137 271,215 447,708 13.290 B.E.A. Nov 1948 3,482 636,440 21,622 70.821 393.269 706,090 13,781 BREVITIES The Italian company, Societa Italiana Servizi Aerei, with headquarters at Trieste, has opened an air service to Vienna and Prague * * * Air Lines of Australia, Ltd., a subsidiary company of Australian National Airways, Ltd., showed a profit of £6,927 for the year 1947-48 and declared a dividend of 7^ per cent. # # • Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation, is expected to visit Manchester on February 7th to open new passenger terminal buildings at Ringway Airport. # * # On January 5th K.L.M.'s 500th regular return flight on the North Atlantic route was completed. Since the service opened on May 22nd, 1946, 29,683 passengers, over 640 tons of freight and 122 tons of mail were carried and more than 3,784,019 miles were flown in 17,273 flying hours. The K.L.M. Caribbean network was increased to 8,000 route miles on January 3rd with the twice-weekly extension of the Curacao- Aruba-Barranquilla-San Jose service to Panama City. • * * Forecasts by the Department of Civil Aviation indicate that Australian internal services will have carried 1,375,000 passengers during 1948. Some indication of the growth in freight traffic is given by the figures for the first quartet of 1947 when 2,845 tons were carried and the September quarter -of 1948 when the amount had risen to 8,175. In sPite of an B 10 increase in route mileage from 48,811 in 1947 to 49,059 in 1948 the hours flown in the last quarter were 57/942, slightly less than the figure of 58,776 hours in 1947. • * * S.A.S. are arranging a fortnightly direct service between Copenhagen and Nairobi, East Africa. The aircraft will fly via Zurich, Athens, Cairo, Khartoum, Asmara and Addis Ababa, and direct communications with Stockholm and Oslo will be operated from Copenhagen. « * * Across the Atlantic during 1948 Pan American Airwayscarried 33,300 passengers west-bound and 22,700 east-bound on more than 2,000 flights, an average of nearly six trips a day.31,000 passengers were carried from New York to Bermuda and another 82,600 from New York to Latin American countries. * * * Plans for a service between Birmingham and Paris werediscussed at a recent meeting between Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation, and representatives of 16 local authoritiesin the Midlands who have been pressing for the use of Elmdon Airport, Birmingham, for scheduled air services. A daily ser-vice would be operated jointly by B.E.A. and Air France, with B.E.A. aircraft based at Manchester leaving Birminghamon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, returning on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and Air France operating on alter-nate weekdays. The service would be in addition to the exist-
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