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JUNE 23RD, I949 FLIGHT 731 Civil Aviation News . . Fiat G.12LS, three-engined aircraft accommodating 18 pas-sengers are flown; and to Sao Paulo, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, the company is using BritishLancastrians. Other international services are contemplated •later this year. ;" The total distance covered by Alitalia's routes has by nowgrown to 13,827 miles and, in the two years of commercial flying, some 155,211 hours and 2,840,563 miles have beenlogged. Passenger-miles amount to 26,944,047 and ton-miles of freight, mail and excess baggage to 1,253,153. ERNEST CHARLES GEARYH IS many friends in aviation will regret to learn that Mr.Ernest Charles Geary, K.L.M. regional operations mana- ger in the United Kingdom, died on June 16th, at the age of41, from a heart attack. He joined K.L.M. as assistant traffic officer in Croydon in 1925 when the company's staff here num-bered four and two services flew each day between Croydon and Amsterdam. In 1934 ne was appointed their traffic super-intendent at Croydon, a post which he held up to the time of joining the Royal Air Force in 1941. His last appointmentdated from 1947, and he was responsible for K.L.M flying operations at London, Prestwick, Ringway, Dublin andShannon Airports BREVITIES AQL^ILA AIRWAYS, LTD., have been granted permission±\ to use Limassol marine base in Cyprus. One of their Hythes was to have used the base recently while returningfrom a Southampton-Aden charter to collect a ship's crew. • * • Construction lias now started on a new airport, four milesfrom Adelaide, to replace Parafield, which is 11 miles from the city and frequently closed by adverse weather. The new air-port, which is being built on reclaimed land, swamps, marshes and sand dunes; will have a main runway of nearly 2,300 yd,with over-runs of 1,000 yd and 500 yd. • • • * On June 9th Air India International completed its first yearof flying London to India services. The airline flew 882,000 miles and carried 5,000 passengers. The addition of two moreConstellations to the fleet will enable A.I.I, to increase the frequency of the service to three flights each week and also tooperate a more frequent service between Bombay and Nairobi. ¥• * * As a result of successful tests the Finnish airline Aero O/Ywill, it is understood, purchase two Saab Scandias. A test flight was recently made over the route Helsinki-Waasa-Kemi-Rovaniemi-Helsinki for the benefit of officials of the airline and the Ministry of Communications, particularly to test theaircraft on the gravel and grass airfields. # * • . Using a DC-6 chartered from British Commonwealth Paoific Airlines, Ltd., Trans-Australia Airlines are to operate a weekly return flight between Sydney and Perth via Melbourne and Adelaide. The flight will leave Sydney OFFICIAL TEST: Air Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, K.B.E., C.B.. M.V.O., D.F.C., Controller of Supplies (Air), Ministry of Supply, recently paid a visit to the Armstrong Whitworth works a Baginton and flew in the Apollo. 3 1.5 at 0805 hr each Sunday and arrive at Perth at 1910 hr, while the return aircraft will leave Perth the same evening at 2330 and reach Sydney at 1205 on the Monday. This service will reduce by 30 min the DC-4 Sydney- Melbourne and Melbourne-Adelaide runs, while 1 hr 30 min will be cut from the Adelaide-Perth journey. * * * During 194S Pan American Airways' gross revenue amounted to $145,216,000, with an estimated net profit of 84,591,000 after payment of $22,920,000 Federal income-tax. Net profit for 1947 was $2,960,000. „ . . .,-•.•• ......... ...- * '?. s .>* . * -""•'"••"• •. v-" • Edited by Mr. E. M. Gurney, who flew with Imperial Air-ways and B.O.A.'C. as captain of aircraft for nearly 20 years, an African Air Guide has been published by Allan R.Lawrie, Ltd., of Durban. Although it is not yet international in scope, the publishers hope progressively to expand it untilit finally covers the world's routes. * * • The Ministry of Civil Aviation has announced the appoint-ment of Mr. Raymond Birkett, D.F.C., as Assistant Civil Air Attache, Paris. During the war he served in the R.A.F. as anavigator in 2nd Tactical Air Force and was awarded the D.F.C. in 1944. The Civil Air Attache is Air Marshal DouglasColyer, C.B., D.F.C.. R.A.F. (retd.). . .-.,_• ..:•;.••:- * • * Lack of standardization on the Australian State airlines isexpected eventually to create an acute dollar problem for the Government. Q.E.A. operate four Constellations and a fifthis needed to run an efficient public service; B.C.P.A. use DC-6s and T.A.A. have five Convairs. In addition, bothT.A.A. and Q.E.A. have a number of DC-3S. All the airlines require more spares, for which dollars will be needed.* * * Swissair is now operating a twice-weekly transatlantic servicebetween Zurich/Geneva and New York, leaving Switzerland on Mondays and Fridays and Jdlewild Airport, New York, onWednesdays and Sundays. Good connections are available at both Geneva and Zurich with other European countries.A third weekly service will be operated between June 22nd and July 15th and between August 24th and September 30th,leaving Switzerland on Wednesdays and New York on Fridays. * * # Since the "family fare" plan was introduced by AmericanAirlines last September more than 76,000 people have used tickets under the scheme, and the airline has asked the CivilAeronautics Board to grant an extension until March 30th, 1950. The plan enables regular ticket-holders to take husbandor wife and children at half fare on the company's routes in the United States and Mexico on Mondays, Tuesdays orWednesdays, and a survey has shown that 64.3 per cent of the passengers who took advantage of it would not otherwise-have travelled by air. * # * On June 16th, the 30th anniversary of the formation of theInternational Air Traffic Association, Sir William P. Hildred, the Director-General, received an unusul memento—the deskwhich the late Sir Sefton Brancker was using at the time he signed the document which brought the Association intoexistence. Sir Sefton was at the time Director-General of Civil Aviation and Sir William subsequently used the desk when hefilled that post from 1942 to 1946. Latterly it has been used by Sir Frederick Bowhill and it will shortly be sent by SirvVilliam Hildred to the headquarters of I.A.T.A. in Montreal. * * • In conjunction with B.C.P.A., Q.E.A., T.E.A. and T.C.A., British Overseas Airways Corporation will introduce on June ^oth a standard round-the-world-fare of £468, and for journeys via Australasia and the South Pacific. Passengers may break their journey at Sydney, Auckland, Fiji, Canton Island and
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