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1949
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FLIGHT, 15 SeNfuibrr ion CIVIL AVIATION NEWS sequence. There was also a reductionIn the landing fee charged for pleasure flights. Aircraft movements at Dublinwere some 3,000 less than in the previous year, but the number of passengers passingthrough increased from 162,761 in 1947-48 to 175,333 ™ 1948-49. During the year underreview the main developments lit the air- port included the erection of freight depotsand a gurage. Runway lighting had been completed and construction of a third largehangar had been started to provide extra accommodation for Aer Lingus. At March31st, 1949, the staff numbered 202. I.A.T.A. ANNUAL REPORT DR. ALBERT PLESMAN, president ofK.L.M., was due to take office last Mon-day, September 12th, as president of I.A.T.A. in succession to Mr. Gilbert Perier,president of Sabena, when some 200 officials of the 70 I.A.T.A. member-airlines andobservers from international organizations attended the opening session of the Associa-tion's annual general meeting at The Hague. The event marked the 30th year since international air transport began on a regulai scheduled basis and since I.A.T.A. wasfounded at The Hague in 1919. The report of the director general, SirWilliam Hildred, showed that members of the air-transport industry had amassed12,000 million passenger miles, 100 million ton-miles of cargo and 250 million ton-milesof mail during 1948, each of which totals represented a substantial increase over the previous year.The director general went on to point out that the key- note of I.A.T.A. activity in matters of world transport wasinternationalism pure and simple and the removal of all un- necessary barriers to the right of the airliner to fly where itwould. He urged greater flexibility in the rate recommenda-' tions of the I.A.T.A. Traffic Conferences to promote off-seasontravel; airline support for efforts to reduce and simplify red tape in customs, immigration and other border formalities;greater attention ,by airlines and governments to problems presented by jet aircraft; an effort to close the gap betweenincreasing air transport and the development of airports land- ing and navigation aids; multilateral agreement on air trans-port rights between nations instead of the present limited bilateral agreements; and delegation of greater responsibilityfor operations to the airlines themselves by governments. In Sir William's view the airlines must provide travellingfacilities for the masses A great deal had been done in the revision of fares in the face of increasing operational andlabour costs. There was, however, a rich potential reservo'ir of mass foreign travel in both the United Kingdom and theU.S.A. Reductions made in cargo rates to attract bulky ship ments had shown immediate and startling results in thevolume of cargo carried, and the trans-Atlantic crossing was an example in the reduction of fares. Not so long ago it hadcost $1,000 for the round trip between London and New York, whereas next month it would cost only $466. The airlines still required public support, but eventuallyaviation would be able to stand on its own legs and it was the director general's plea that each government should regard*the problem as a whole, in order to avoid one branch insist- ing that subsidies should be reduced while another clamouredfor higher landing fees and still a third insisted that mail rates should be cut. In considering international regulations, hefelt that the airlines of the world should subscribe to the pro- position that international regulations should be written inbroad general terms and that excessive details . should be prevented or eliminated. He hoped that the manner inwhich the right to fly was chopped up into hundreds of little bilateral treaties would come to be regarded as a fundamen-tally wrong approach. SOLENT ROUTE CHANGE FROM the end of this month B.O.A.C. will modify the routeof one of the three Solent services which fly each week toJohannesburg. The aircraft will fly via Lake Nyasa in East Afrira instead of by way of. Victoria Falls in Central Africa. RELAXATION: The interior layout and seating arrangements of the B.O.A.C.Argonauts provide a degree of comfort which is particularly appreciated on the Empire routes to the East. Accommodation is normally provided for 40 passengerswith an extra six seats in the lounge, but B.O.A.C. has recently been carrying only 25 in order to leave space for exceptionally large loads of b.iggage and mail. The Solents will alight at Cape Maclear on the extreme southern end of the lake—so that the northern stage from Port Bell will be 1,027 miles and the southern stage from Johannes- burg 1,020 miles. The journey from Southampton to Johan- nesburg via Lake Nyasa will total 6,455 miles, compared with 6,410 miles on the present route. , The change is purely experimental and will be made initiallyfor three months in order to provide an air link with Northern Nyasaland where, it is understood, a vast area of land isbeing developed by the Colonial Development Corporation. Sir Miles Thomas left London on September 9th for Nairobito secure the fullest co-operation between B.O.A.C. and lncal enterprises in Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. He will.beaway until September 27th. AIR CHARTER T3ROKERS report that during recent weeks air chartering -*—' has been particularly slack and that no obvious reason has been found to account for it. In those enquiries which have been made, small consignments were prominent and charter aircraft have accepted small loads for completion. The scheduled airlines have been able to offer more favour- able rates and conditions for freight, due to the absence of bulky loads. Medium-sized aircraft are quoting high rates for week-end employment, owing to their associate commitments with B.E.A., which leave very few aircraft on the market for Saturdays and Sundays. B'.O.A.C. have been particularly busy, carrying valuable skins from South Africa to London— one consignment consisted of 11,000 pelts weighing z\ tons. The Corporation has recently reduced its rates for karakul skins from 6s 9d to 5s 5d per kg for quantities of 500 kg and over. It is understood that increasing numbers of fanners from South West Africa are now sending their pelts to this country by air, thereby gaining extra time for lambing be- fore the sales. LUBRICANTS TANKER A NEW vehicle for replenishing aircraft with lubricatingoils and auxiliary fluids has recently been put into ser-vice. The equipment, designed by Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., and built by Thompson Bros, of Bilston, consists of a tankwith four 220-gall main compartments for various grades of oil, and three 60-gall intermediates for de-icing and otherspecial fluids. Each compartment is discharged through its individual meter, flexible delivery hose and trigger nozzle bycompressed air at 50 Ib/sq in—fed to all compartment air- spaces by a compressor driven by the engine of the vehicle. D ?
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