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392 FLIGHT, 5 October 1950 CIVIL AVIATION NEWS ~. BREVITIES It has been announced that the Ministries of Communicationof Sweden, Norway and Denmark are shortly to meet to discuss plans for the closer co-operation of the three respective nationalairlines. El Al, the Israeli national airline, has now taken deliveryof its first Constellation and will shortly return the DC-4 which was formerly leased to it by the American operators, NationalAirlines. With effect from October 15th, Air India International is to operate an additional weekly service between London and India, making a total of four flights a week in each direction. From that date, also, two of the services which now terminate at Bombay will be extended to Calcutta. * * * It is understood that discussions have taken place in OsloBetween a member of the Leith Dock Commission and represen- tatives of S.A.S. on the possibility of establishing a flying-boatservice between Leith and Norway. * * * S.A.S. has increased the frequency of its night services from Copenhagen to Paris from three to five flights weekly. The service is said to be proving very popular, and extra aircraft will be provided should bookings demand it. * * * T.W.A. has now taken delivery of 10 of its 12 new Martin2-0-2AS and is introducing them on medium-length and short- haul flights radiating from New York. The 2-0-2AS are beingoperated as "interim" aircraft pending the delivery during 1951 of 40 pressurized Martin 4-0-4S. * * * The Brazilian Government has placed an order for 80 PiperSuper Cubs, to be used for training purposes under the state- subsidized flying-club scheme. The Piper Cub is available intwo versions, powrered with either a 108 h.p. or 125 h.p. Lycoming engine. With the more powerful unit the aircraftis certified for a payload of 1,022 1b when used for agricultural spraying or dusting. * # • P.A.W.A. has announced an order for a fleet of 18 DouglasDC-6Bs, which are a faster and larger version of the standard BC-6. The order amounts to some $21,000,000 and deliveryis scheduled to begin next autumn. It is claimed that the DC-6B, which is powered by Pratt and Whitney R.2800CB-17engines (each of 2,500 h.p.), will be a high-performance aircraft with particularly low operating costs. * * * With the departure on September 24th of a Hermes IV fromLondon Airport, B.O.A.C. inaugurated its new landplane ser- vice between London and East Africa. Operating four timesa week in each direction, the Hermes will replace the Solent service previously flown between Southampton and LakeNaivasha, near Nairobi Hermes are already flying on the route between London and West Africa and will shortly beintroduced on the Springbok service between London and Johannesburg In the second quarter of 1950 aircraft of the Pan American World Airways system flew a total of some 324,485,000 passenger-miles, as compared with 261,714,000 in the corres- ponding period of THE AIR-BEEF SAGA : Having completed its first season of trans- porting carcases from the Glenroy abattoir to Wyndham, A.N.A.'s Bristol Freighter Mannana proudly displays her "ops" record. \ With a flight to Leuchars on September 20th, the first proto-type D.H. Comet completed 363 flying hours. It later carried out flight trials- with D.M.E. equipment, which had beeninstalled within two hours of touching down. * • * When A.O.A. advertised recently in Frankfurt that there existed four vacancies for German air hostesses, nearly 500 applications were received. One of them was from a 45-year-. old woman who was with the pre-war German airline Lufthansa. • * * Following the successful transport by air of live prawns from Hobart to Sydney, Trans-Oceanic Airways, using Sunderlands, is now flying live lobsters on the same route at the rate of 6,ooolb on each weekly flight. # * * The growth of Trans Australia Airlines is well illustrated by the fact that their annual passenger total has increased from 193,000 in the first year of operation to 543,000 in the fourth. In the financial year ended June 30th the company showed its first profit; and in four years of operation there has not been a single serious accident. \. • * * The Parliamentary Secretary to the M.C.A., Mr. Frank Beswick, M.P., left London Airport on Saturday, September 23rd, for a tour of South America and the West Indies. Taking advantage of the opportunity oSered by the Parliamentary recess, he is making the journey to acquaint himself personally with B.O.A.C.'s South American and Caribbean routes and meet the Corporation's staff at various bases. # * * The text of a bilateral air agreement between the United Kingdom and Israel was initialled in London on September 22nd, following negotiations which had taken place since August 29th. The agreement provides for regular services fb be flown between the two countries and includes landing rights in Cyprus, Lydda, Aden and South Africa. • » • Announcing traffic figures for the first six months o* this year, Air France states that some 312,000,000 passenger-miles were flown and over 329,000 passengers carried. In July the company broke its previous record for flying hours with a total of 15,645. With the introduction of Bristol 170s on its Far East network the company has also been able to increase the number of services from Saigon to various points in Indo- China. The aircraft are on charter to Air France from the Indo-Chinese company, S.I.T.A. * * * One internal operator, National Airlines, seems to be enjoy-ing an unusually large share of the improved traffic recorded by nearly all American companies in the past financial year.National's profit for this period was more than $500,000 and during the year repayment of the company's long-term loanwas completed—two years ahead of schedule. Passenger- mileage rose by 48 per cent, although capacity was increasedby only 29 per cent. The company is now operating "air coach" services on the east.coast of the United States atfares one-third less than normal airline rates. * * * The Australian Airline Pilots' Association has requested ten major operators to increase the salaries of their 750 pilots by 33 per cent. Other claims include three months' notice of dismissal, 28 days' recreation leave each year, and superannua- • tion as a legal entitlement. The Association alleges that Australian pilots receive the lowest salaries in the world, and give comparative annual rates of pay for " Grade I " pilots in Australia, Great Britain and the United States as being £1,350, £2,062 and £6,207 respectively. There is also said to be a growing shortage of pilots in the country and for the fir^t time T.A.A. is advertising vacancies for aircrew. f
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