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FLIGHT, 29 December 1949 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS . s -. of the clubs are affiliated, has asked, for assistance to theextent of £50,000 for the first year, increasing by £5,000 increments to ^65,000. This would reduce.the cost of flyingfrom £3 10s to a figure between £i and jos per hour and result in a larger pool of potential military and civil pilots. In return for the subsidy, clubs would undertake to train300 " A " Licence pilots per year, and assist currently-licensed members to maintain the validity of their licences. PILOTS' PENSIONS PILOTS employed by the British airline corporations willbenefit by a pension-scheme agreement negotiated on their behalf by B.A.L.P.A. The final draft has yet to be approved by the Minister of Civil Aviation and by the Board of InlandRevenue. Major implications of the scheme are that membership willbe compulsory for all pilots under 35 engaged after the passing of the Civil Aviation Act, and will be effective from the dateof appointment as pilot. A minimum pension payable is ^350 at the age of 40 and a maximum of £650 at the age of 50. Theminimum age for retirement is 40, subject to ten years' service as a pilot, but retirement before reaching the age of 45 is per-missible only with the agreement of the corporation concerned. Pilots who retire before reaching the minimum pension agebecause they cannot retain their licences owing to ill-health or accident will receive a pension based on age and length ofservice. The death benefit payable if a pilot is killed in a flying accident will be four times his basic annual salary. B.O.A.C. pilots who are in the Corporation's existing pensionscheme will now have the option of transferring. BRITISH AIRWAYS STATISTICS FOR APRIL, 1948 TO MARCH, 1949 (Comparative figures for financial year 1947/48 are given in parentheses, together with percentage change.) Services British European Airways§ British Overseas Airways British South American Airways Total Internal Services! Total International Services Total All Services Revenue Aircraft- Miles Flown 12,786,907 (12,465,434)+2.6 25,772,196 (24,457,607) + 5.4 5,121,442 (4.795,786)+6.8 5,187,254 (7,046,449) -26.4 38,493,291 (34,672,378)+ 11.0 43,680,545 (41,718,827)+4.7 Revenue Passenger- Miles Flown 155,027,743 (122,475,237)+26.6 362,101,251 (296,908,288) +22.0 47,538,862 (50,048,507) -5.0 57,496,560 (49.370,589)+ 16.5 507,171,296 (420,061,443)+20.7 564,667,856 (469,432,032)+20.3 Available Seat-Miles Flown 237,770,934 (176,718,077) + 34.5 546,073,753 (445.534,216)+226 94,032,348 (92,061,102)+2.1 90.434,759 (77,707,451)+ 16.4 787,442,276 (636,605,944) +23.7 877,877,035 (714,313,395)+22.9 Revenue Passenger Load-Factor 65.2 (69.3) 66.3 (66.6) 50.6 (54.4) 63.6 (63.5) 64.4 (66.0) 64.3 (65.7) Revenue Passengers Carried 577,122 (511,522)+ 12.8 120,334 (101,170) + 18.9 21,005 (13,772) +52.5 369,722 (360,131)+2.7 348,739 (266,333) + 30.9 718,461 (626,464)+ 14.7 Revenue Cargo Carried (Tons) Mail 2,663.2 (1,390.9)+91.5 1,709.2 (1,692.3)+ 1.0 209.8 (170.1) +23.3 1.175.1 (791.6) +48.4 3,407.1 (2,461.7)+38.4 4,582.2 (3,253.3) +40.8 Freight* 4,800.2 (3,022.7)+58.8 3,247.7 (2,087.4)+55.6 600.8 (553.4) + 8.6 1,213.7 (988.3) +22.8 7,435.0 (4,675.2)+59.0 8,648.7 (5,663.5)+52.7 Revenue Ton-Miles Performed (Total) 16,468,327 (12,304,122) +33.8 53,476,140 (42,354,634)+26.3 8.593.878 (8.804.840) 4,930,494 (4,103,378) +20.2 73,607,851 (59.360,218) +24.0 78,538,345 (63,463,596) +23.8 Usable Capacity Ton-Miles Flown 26,275,607 (19,738,675) +33.1 86,401,049 (63,895,569)+35.2 16.192,689 (14,955,559) +8.3 8,579,981 7,642,670)+ 12.3 120,289,364 (90,947,133)+32.3 128.869.345 (98.589,803)+ 30.7 Overall Revenue Load-Factor 62.7 (62.3) 61.9 (66.3) 53.1 (58.9) 57.5 (53.7) 61.2 (65.3) 60.9 (64.4) * Includes excess baggage and diplomatic mail. f Excludes U.K./Concinent services operated by B.E.A. English and Scottish Divisions (included in international services). § B.E.A. figures for 1948-9 include a number of special freight services. THE statistics above are extracted from the final returns ofthe three British Airways Corporations—B.E.A., B.O.A.C. and B.S.A.A.—for the financial year ended March31st, 1949. They supplement the annual report of the Cor- porations published in Flight, October 20th. The figures in-clude B.O.A.C.'s share of the pooled traffic on the U.K.- Australia and U.K.-South Africa services operated jointly withQantas Empire Airways and South African Airways respectively. The operations of the subsidiary and associatedcompanies are excluded, but regular scheduled services which were temporarily operated by charter companies on behalf of theGovernment are regarded as Corporation services. BREVITIES A NEW Atlantic record is claimed by Pan American WorldAirways for a Constellation flight from New York to Shannon, on December 18th, in 7 hr 49 min, an average speed of 395 m.p.h. The present record is 8 hr 25 min, which was set up by a B.O.A.C. Constellation on December 2nd, 1946. * * * So great were the demands for air travel during the Christ-mas holidays that 71 extra nights were scheduled by B.E.A. between December 19th and 31st. The main destinations wereParis, Switzerland, Channel Islands and Northern Ireland. To relieve pressure on the Continental freight department, fourHalifaxes of the Lancashire Aircraft Corporation were chartered for flights from London to Athens. * * • Further details of the reduced return fares which, subject to international approval, will be offered by American trans- Atlantic airlines during the first three months of 1950, have been announced by I.A.T.A. Some examples of the new rates from New York include: To London, £137 10s (a saving of £87 10s); to Amsterdam-Brussels-Paris, £145 10s (£92 10s); to Copenhagen-Oslo-Frankfurt-Zurich, ^158 (£84 10s.); and to Rome, ^173 G£iO7 ios). The B.O.A.C. New York-London fare is £125- * • * Extension of existing routes and the inauguration of a newdirect service to Britain will be the result of the purchase of four Constellations, recently concluded by South AfricanAirways. The South African Minister of Transport has stated that the present Nile service will be extended to includea stop at Rome and, possibly, stops at Cairo and Athens, while a new route would be operated via the West Coast of Africa direct to Britain. A service to the United States may be introduced as soon as it is economically feasible. • • • Following a successful trial flight by an African AirwaysCorporation aircraft, it is announced that a link between Accra and Khartoum will be inaugurated on January 6th. The newservice will provide connections with other airlines at Accra westwards to the United States and at Khartoum for destina-tions in Asia. A Bristol Wayfarer which made the trial flight carried 16 first-class and 12 second-class passengers, with i|tons of freight. • • • The television sound transmissions from Alexandra Palace on 41.5 mc/s are said to be causing interference with S.B.A. re- ception in aircraft flying in the London area. In Information Circular No. 14.1, the Ministry of Civil Aviation states that interference has so far been reported only on aircraft equipped with marker beacon receiver R.1125D using a horizontal wire aerial capacitively coupled to the grid circuit of the first valve, and can be cured by modifications to the receiver. * * * A new arrangement of connections enables B.C.P.A. passen-gers flying between the Antipodes and the United Kingdom to do so in an elapsed time of only 78hr. Passengers fromSydney connect at San Francisco with United Airlines' DC-6 service to New York and then with the B.O.A.C. Constellationservice to London. The through fare is /NZ270 or /AUS325. Stop-overs may be made at any point with no additionalcharge. An alternative routing is available via Canada, calling at Vancouver and Montreal.
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