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1949
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MAY 5TH, 1949 FLIGHT 537 THE CIVIL AIR LIFTW HILE the Beilin Air Lift as a whole was breaking all previou? records, the fleet of civil aircraft owned by charter companies but directed by B.E.A. continued to make steady progress, particularly with the deliveries of specialized wet cargoes. The entire liquid-fuel requirement of the three Western Powers in Berlin is carried by the civil fleet of about 40 aircraft, aud during the Easter peak 2,000 tons of fuel and 500 tons of food were carried into Berlin. During March the fleet delivered 11,000 tons of liquid fuel in addition to dry cargoes ol food. Spectacular numbers of sorties have been flown by many civil airlift crews: A. V-M. D. C. T. Bennett of Airflight, flying his own Tudor, has made over 250 sorties; Capt. Parkinson, of the same company, over 180; and Capt. Nutton, of Westminster Airways, more than 170. In the five days ending Easter Monday, four B.S.A.A. Tudor Vs made a total of 75 sorties, carrying 170,000 gallons of fuel into Berlin from their base at Wunsdorf. BREVITLES MR. J. V. WOOD has now returned from prolonged sickleave to the position of chief executive of British Euro- pean Airways, and Mr, Peter Masefield, appointed last Decem-ber as assistant to the chairman, has been appointed to the position of deputy chief executive. K.L.M. are expecting delivery in August and September of two additional Constellations, bringing their fleet of this type of aircraft up to twenty * • # On June 1st Pan American Airways will start a service between New York and Marseilles. Flying three times a week, aircraft will call at Boston, Santa Maria (Azores), Lisbon and Barcelona. P.A.A. operated a flying-boat service on this route in 1939, but it was curtailed at the outbreak of war. * * • Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia (AVIANCA), an affiliate of P.A.W.A.. started a twice-weekly scheduled sendee between Bogota and New York on April 20th. At present the service calls at Miami and Barranquilla, Colombia, but later opera- tions will include Jamaica. * * * During March, 1949, American Overseas Airlines carried1,946 passengers to Europe, an increase of nearly 300 per cent over any preceding March The airline flew approxi-mately 700 passengers to Europe in both March, 1947, and March, 1948. * # * Reuter reports from New York say that during 1948 the Western Division of B.O.A.C. earned more than £1,125,000 in dollars and nearly ,£2,000,000 sterling. Passenger revenue was said to have totalled £815,000 sterling, and freight more than ^187,500 sterling. * » -'-*•• • •». ••'-'-.. ••- •'•. • • •••. • Coinciding with the removal of the Canadian Government's 15 per cent transportation tax, Trans-Canada Air Lines has submitted a proposal to the Canadian Air Transport Board and the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board for a 15 per cent increase 0.3 its fares. .,... -. : . • -, .,.--• .,.-.. * • * ••'*' " • .'.'"•' The Civil Aeronautics Board has been recommended by its- l*wyers to investigate Pan American Airways' activities during the Board's consideration of the proposed merger of PA.A. and A.O.A. As reported in Flight, April 21st, employees of A.O.A. requested investigation into P.A.A.'s alleged efforts to exclude competition, I.A.T.A. conferences on world air traffic, technical and financial matters and public relations are being held in Europe this month Seventeen meetings have been arranged in various parts of the world during the remainder of the year, the Fifth Annual General Meeting being scheduled for the week beginning September 12th at The Hague. * * * With its summer schedules now in operation, Scandinavian Airlines System flies to 51 towns in 27 different countries, operating with a fleet of 64 aircraft, including twelve DC-6s and nine DC-4S. A new service has been opened between DII RUSH HOURS: What the B.E.A. departure movement-boarJ at Northolt looks like during a heavy holiday-traffic period—in thi> instance Easter, when, as recorded in these columns last week, all previous passenger totals were exceeded. The day's movements shown here represent a trebling of the normal Paris service. Stockholm, Visby (on the Isle of Gotland) and Malmo, on thesouth coast; Vienna and Milan have now been included in the S.A.S. network; and connections with Western Germanyhave been strengthened. From May 16th S.A.S. will fly nine services a week to New York, and a service -between Stockholmand Nairobi i.s expected to start shortly. * # * K.L.M. aircralt on the Amsterdam-Munich and Amsterdam-Milan routes are now landing at Frankfurt eight times a week. Last October, at the request of the Berlin Air Liftauthorities, K.L.M. re-routed their Munich bound aiicraft through Stuttgart instead of Frankfurt. 1 ' * * * * r.-/ At a recent meeting of the Scottish Advisory Council onCivil Aviation, Sir Patrick Dollan, the chairman, said that passengers on the London-Edinburgh air service occupied only42 per cent of available seats, but it was expected that by the end of another month the passenger load would equal the62 per cent of the London-Glasgow rpute. The meeting was attended by the B.E.A. chairman. Lord Douglas, who latervisited Prestwick, Turnhouse and Renfrew airports. * * * Excessive operational losses, caused the feeder service linkingJohannesburg aud the Rand, operated by Commercial Air Ser- vice, Ltd., to be suspended at the end of March. The service-was started under licence last July and, although the operates anticipated a loss, it was hoped that it would be offset byprofits from the sale of light airciaft. The import control introduced by the Scuth African Government has preventedthis and the company has decided to concei-.tmte on its other activities. * * * To meet increasing passenger and freight traffic Air France has replaced the Dewoitine 338s on the Corsica services by DC-js, running a twice weekly service Marseilles-Ajaccio-Bastia- Kice and a Marseilles-Bastia-Nice service four times a week. In addition two further services run six times a week from Marseilles to Bastia and from Bastia to Nice with Languedoc
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