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FLIGHT, 3 November 1949 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS • • • lubricants (20,98.:.000 guilders lor 1948) the operating cost perton kilometre was lower than in former years. Share capi- tal was increased by the issue ot ordinary shares to the valueof 11,000,000 guilders 1948 was the third year in succession in which K.L.M. has declared a profit. The most remunerative services were again those over theAmsteidam-Batavia route, but the South African run showed the largest proportionate increase. Only the Dutch domesticservices lailed to show any substantial increase over the 1947 figures. The company's fleet was enlarged and modernizedduring the year, and 011 December 31st, 1948, consisted of 84 aircraft. The total number of personnel employed at thatdate was 13,957, of which 4,550 were stationed outside the Netherlands. AIRFIELD ACTIVITY IN MAY A CCORDING to figures only now issued by the Ministry of •**• Civil Aviation, a total of 46,286 aircraft movements were recorded at all airfields in the United Kingdom during May. The aircraft movements at Northolt in May, 1948, numbered 2,452 and at London Airport 2,399. Passenger movements also showed a marked increase over those of last year when, again in May, 37,019 passengers passed through Northolt and 42<553 passed through London Airport. In May, 1949, U.K. airfields were used by 165,120 passengers, and the freight handled exceeded 2,500 tons, of wjiich over 80 per cent passed through the London area, which in this case includes Boving- don. Airport Aberdeen (Dyce) Belfast (Nutts Corner) Belfast (Sydenham) ... Birmingham (Elmdon) Biackbushe Blackpool (Squires Gace) Bovingdon Bristol (Whitchurch) Cardiff (Pengam Moors) Croydon Edinburgh (Turnhouse) Gatwick Hurn Inverness (Dalcross)... Isle of Man (Ronaldsway) Kirkwall Liverpool (Speke) London Lympne Manchester (Ringway) Northolt j Nottingham (Totlerton) ' Prestwick Renfrew Shoreham Southampton (Easlleigh) Southampton Water... Weston-super-Mare ... Wick Yeadon Others Aircraft Movements Air Trans. 263 538 27 284 116 310273 44 435 480 214 103 37 354 937 411 622 1,947 130 853 3,092 48 611 982 40 487 94 247 293 152 1,074 Misc. 1.826 54 954 1,586 645 1,693 1,617 1.771 2,537 1,036 2,461 866 1,481 77 189 43 494 922 927 1.438 1,032 841 605 416 965 1,061 612 691 49 1,508 391 Pass. (No ) 1.127 8,328 112 1,543 1,414 935 815 III 1,178 1,340 1,974 382 144 2,539 5,534 1,891 6,608 35,309 431 7,135 55,000 225 8,358 10,507 109 3,371 1,671 672 491 753 5,113 Freight i (Ib) 23.280 86,264 10,275 318.567 16,985 1,598,799 19,988 94,656 8,458 2,119 95 15,940 27,538 19,976 78,156 1,632,161 250,831 182,649 936,483 1,433 76,187 69,407 18,817 103,370 1.817 1,224 51,255 NEW ARGONAUT ROUTES DURING the coming three weeks B.O.A.C. Argonauts willreplace York, Skymaster and Lancastrian aircraft on several more routes. On November 7th the weekly Skymaster service (flown by Skyways under a charter arrangement to Abadan Persian Gulf) will be replaced by a weekly Argonaut service via Rome and Damascus. Then, on November 12th, Argonauts will replace Skymasters on the twice-weekly service to Bahrein, stopping at Rome instead of Malta. Rome is also being sub- stituted for Malta as the stop on the London-Baghdad weekly service, which will be operated by Argonauts from Novem- ber 16th, with a reduction of i\ hours in flying time. Yorks on the twice-weekly service to Cairo were due to be replaced yesterday, November 2nd, and the weekly service to Lydda will be flown by Argonauts after November 15th. On this latter route Rome will be the only stop, Nicosia (Cyprus) being omitted, and the flying time will be reduced by 6J hours on the outward .flight and five on the homeward. At present three services each week are operated by Yorks on the London- Calcutta route, but on November 17th the route will be flown by a once-weekly Argonaut service stopping at Malta, Cairo, Bahrein, Karachi and Delhi—Malta and Bahrein being sub- stituted for Rome and Basra respectively. The most notice- able speed-up will be on the London-Colombo route, which will be flown weekly by Argonauts as from November 16th. The outward journey will take 32 hours and the inward 34^ hours saving of 18 and 31 hours respectively through eliminationof the night-stop at Karachi. On this route stops will be made at Rome, Cairo, Bahrein and Bombay, Rome and Bahreintaking the place of Malta and Karachi respectively. No date has yet been fixed for the operation of the Colombo-Singaporeroute by Argonauts instead of Lancastrians. B.E.A. IN AUGUSTB ESIDES claiming a profit for operations during last August, B.E.A. states that in that month it repeated its July performance of carrying more than 100,000 passengers, an in- crease of over 19,000 over the corresponding month in 1948. Freight on the internal services amounted to twice that carried in August last year. Although many internal routes are now flown by associate companies, route mileage increased during the year; on Continental services it remained approximately the same. Passenger stage flights com- pletedDistance flown—miles Revenue passengers Revenue passenger-mites . Excess baggage (Ib) Mail (Ib) Freight (Ib) Route mileage U.K. Services Aug. 1948 5,692 639,727 58,761 8,737,602 95,310 223,350 157,959 2,549 Aug. 1949 5,356 612,531 64,083 10,481,892 104,774 238,033 306,229 2.835 Continental Services Aug. 1948 1,791782,863 25,490 11,517,408 150,479 299,317 672,070 11,140 Aug. 1949 2,5731,083,735 39,636 16,566,364 166,026 404,581 603,816 11,126 DEVALUED CLEARANCESB Y reason of the recent revaluation of so many currencies the I.A.T.A. clearance transactions for August presented a complicated mathematical problem for the London Clearing House. The August clearance was computed 11 days after devaluation for which purpose the Clearing House had pre- pared an intricate table of co-efficients and their reciprocals in order to meet every foreseeable combination of currency clearance. It was completed in six days compared with the normal five. The currency changes have made differences in monthly clearances difficult to compare. In order to give an exact comparison the old rates of exchange were applied. On this basis, clearances in August, 1949, amounted to $15,327,584 compared with $13,370,414 in July, 1949, and $12,316,876 in August, 1948. This figure exceeds the previous record clearance (in September, 1948) of $15,161,330. On the same basis the cumulative clearances for the first eight months of 1949 amounted to $103,166,402, compared with $68,414,007 for the corresponding period of 1948, an increase of 50 per cent. Of these clearances 83 per cent was settled by offset in 1949 compared with 78 per cent in 1948. B.E.A. FAMILY FARES "DEDUCED fares for families travelling on the main United •A-Y Kingdom routes, as forecast in Flight of October 20th, were introduced by British European Airways on November 1st and will continue until the end of March. The concession, an experiment to encourage air travel during the off-peak season, will apply every day except Mondays and Fridays on routes between London and Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Jersey and Guernsey. The Christmas period, December 16th to 31st, is also excepted. A similar concession proved highly successful in the United States last winter. Under the B.E.A. "Family Travel Plan" the head of a family may book a return trip at the normal fare and take two other adult members of the family at the price of a single fare each for the return journey. For this purpose adult members of the family include husband, wife, father, mother, grandparents, children and grandchildren over 15 years of age. Children under 15 already travel at half-fare or, if under three years old, at 10 per cent of the full fare. The saving for a family of three adults travelling to Scotland or Northern Ireland is £6, and on a trip to the Channel Islands, £7 4s. Through bookings under the '' Family Travel Plan'' -may also be made between Northern Ireland or Scotland and the Channel Islands. AN AMERICAN IDEAL AN American idea of the airliner of 1955 was outlined byGen. H. R. Harris, vice-president and general manager of A.O.A., in an address which he gave recently before the Society of Automotive Engineers. His version of the ideal aircraft for trans-ocean service was one, he said, which would accom- modate not more than 50 passengers in sleeperette-type seats, have a lounge seating ten persons and carry 2,500 lb of mail D 4
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