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1951
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628 FLIGHT CIVIL AVIATION . . . ferred or sold without the Ceylon Government having first option; at the end of ten years, however, A.N.A.'s interest can be compul- sorily acquired/The two Skymasters operating the Sydney-London service are transferred with A.N.A. property to the Australian register and are chartered by Air Ceylon at a specific rate for each flight. A.N.A. has now become the principal agent for Air Ceylon in London and Australia and receives a commission of 7I per cent on all seats sold, and an over-riding commission of 2\ per cent on all tickets sold by suff-age'nts in London and Australia. THE AMBASSADOR'S TJ&ALS IN the course of an extensive programme of endurance-testingand route trials the first production Ambassador, scheduled for delivery to B.E.A. this summer, recently recorded a total of 52^ flying hours between the morning of May 10th and the evening of May 14th—a utilization of 10 hr per day. The trials were designed to give the maximum experience value from the required 250-hr endurance test on the Centaurus 661s. By the time the Ambassador comes into service it is estimated that it will have completed 1,500 hr of prototype flying, which is con- siderably more than most prototypes enjoy before their production counterparts are pressed into service. The present tests include a period of at least 50 hr under pres- surized conditions, the maximum differential being used on each separate flight, while during the 250 hr period in which the power plants must perform without defect, all instruments, electrics and radio must be operated as extensively as possible. The trials are being carried out jointly by Mr. G. B. S. Erring- ton, for Airspeed, and by Capt. C. E. F. Riley on behalf of B.E.A. A nucleus of Corporation engineers has also been attached to the base at Hurn, from which the proving flights are being carried out. At the time of going to press some 160 hr of the 250 hr required had been completed. PRESTWICK FEEDER SERVICE SCOTTISH AVIATION, LTD., have completed arrangements ^ to introduce a new scheduled feeder service between Prestwick and London (Northolt), with a stop at Burtonwood Airport, this summer. The route will be operated for a period of twelve months beginning on June 8th, and is the result of several applications made last year to obtain feeder services for Prestwick for five-year periods under Associate Agreements with B.E.A. Negotiations are still proceeding for the operation of a similar schedule for a period of two years, between Aberdeen, Errol, Edinburgh, Prestwick and Belfast; it is still thought possible that it may be introduced this summer. The Prestwick-Burtonwood-London flight is to be made six times a week (Sundays excepted) and has been timed to permit passengers from the Prestwick area to carry out a day's business in Manchester, Liverpool or London and return home the same evening. Fares are: Prestwick-London, £8 single, £11 return; Prestwick-Burtonwood, £4 10s. single, £6 return. T.O.A. EXPANSION PLANS 'T'RANS-OCEANIC AIRWAYS have now received the first of the -*- Solent flying-boats which they intend to use on the Sidney- Hobart and Sidney-New Guinea-New Britain services. The first machine was flown out to Australia by Mr. Brian Moncton, T.O.A.'s managing director. Among the passengers was the Hon. Anthony Cayzer, a director of the British Clan and Cayzer-Irvine shipping company, which has acquired a financial interest in T.O.A. On their arrival it was announced that, in addition to the local services now being run, T.O.A. would shortly be extending its operations to overseas routes. It is known, incidentally, that T.O.A. are anxious to acquire further Solents, but as yet no decision has been reached on the future of the remainder of the former B.O.A.C. boats now lying at Belfast. BRITISH AIRWAYS OPERATING STATISTICS FOR JANUARY, 1951 (Figures for the corresponding period of 1950 are given in parentheses) Revenue aircraft-miles ... Total aircraft-miles Revenue passengers Revenue passenger-miles Available seat-miles Revenue passenger load-factor (per cent) Cargo (tons)* Freight Revenue load ton-miles Usable capacity ton-miles Overall revenue load-factor ... Total revenue hours Total non-revenue hours Equivalent annual utilization (revenuehours) per aircraft ... Unduplicated route-miles in operationat end of period ... Percentage regularity ... Average length of stage flight (miles) B.O.A.C. All Areas 2.365,185 (2,143,047) 2,522,585 (2,357,362) 15,355 0(,4/6) 43,859,346 (31.315,245) 87,516,845 (60,(60,520) 50.1 (52.1) 180.4 ((47.5) 434 6(286.0) 6,854,858 (4.9/0,0/4) 13,596,269 (9,789,514) 56.5 (50.5) 10,544 ((0,236) 7860,270) 1,953 (1,435) 65,978 (7/,435) 99.3 (95.9) 1,102 0,047) B.O.A.C- Western Area 322,977 (3/6,7/2) 344,679 (335.118) 3,219 (2.058) 9,288,152 (5,428.354) 20,089,785 (13,237,81/) 46.2 (41.0) 29.7 (33.6) 72 9(45.2) 1,220,562 (768,67/) 2,395,275 (1,770,671) 51.0 (43.4) 1,306 0,337) 98(89) — 8,074 (7,7/3) 96.5 (94.2) 1,475 0,2/8) B.O.A.C. Eastern Area 1,504,241 ((.359,5/2) 1,526.343 0,377,74/) 8,744 (7. (23) 29,801,350 (23.623.384) 52,073,644 (39,741,4//) 57.2 (59.4) 132.9 (100.8) 297 0096.0) 4,866,566 (3,682,467) 7,703,218 (6,327,/38) 63.2 (58.2) 6,863 (6,573) III 007) — 40,009 (43,782) 99.9 (96.() 1,107 0,082) B.O.A.C. South American Area 407,420 (403,199) 415,411 (408.523) 3,392 (2.235) 4,769,844 (2.263,507) 15,353,416 (7,/8/,298) 31.1 (3/.5) 17.8 (13.1) 64.7(44.8) 767.730 (458.876) 2,032,942 (1,618,624) 37.8 (28.3) 1,786 (2,063) 38(34) — 17,895 (/9,940) 98.7 (96.3) 907 (858) B.E.A. All Divisions 1,415,783 ((,/48,568) 1,490,094 0,266,296) 43,197 (39,603) 13,255,462 02,329,479) 28,436,572 (22,357,(05) 46.6 (55.1) 353.2 (297.3) 747.1(5(/.7) 1,537,311 0,420.624) 3,114,075 (2,449,165) 49.5 (58.3) 9.781 (7,893) 570(895) 1,275 ((,074) 16,101 (((,882) 85.9 (94.4) 231 (222) B.E.A. Continental Division 1,086,451 (840,620 1,114,085 (873,230) 26,826 (2 (.670) 10,511,142 (9,/28,703) 21.807,773 05,910,226) 48.2 (57.4) 243.7 098.9) 5802 (369.5) 1,270,081 (1.122,027) 2,492.398 (1,854,787) 51.0 (60.7) 6,932 (5,2/2) 194 (218) 1.569 U.353) 13.169 (9.495) 84.0 (92.3) 348 (366) B.E.A. British Division 329,332 (307,947) 343,274 (3/8,858) 16,371 ((7,933) 2,744,320 (3,200,776) 6,628,799 (6,446,879) 41.4 (49.6) 109 5 (98.4) 166 9 ((42.2) 267.230 (298.597) 621,677 (594,378) 43.5 (51.0) 2.849(2,68/) 137 (110) 893 (767) 2,932 (2,387) 87.9 (96.0) 114 0(2) B.E.A.1! Associates 33,216 (53,(68) — 656 ((,065) 492,786 (408,984) 670,215 (7/4,048) 73.5 (57.3) I.I (0.7) 3.2 (2.() 50,528 (36.760) 92,679 (100,840) 54.5 (36.5) 247 (417) —— — — 2,123 (2,355) 89.3 (95.2) 199 068) A LTHOUGH the weather in January was not conducive to **• good regularity, figures now available show that U.K. airlines carried 13.7 per cent more passengers, 48.1 per cent more freight and 20 per cent more mail than in the corresponding month of the previous year. Of the total of all passengers (59,208) who flew during the month, 43,011 were carried on international services. Passenger-mileage rose by 30.8 per cent to a total of nearly 58,000,000. B.O.A.C. accounted for 15,355 of the pas- senger total, an increase of 34.5 per cent over last year's figure, in passenger-miles also (43,859,346) the total was 40.1 per cent more than in January 1950. Most of this improvement was seen on the North Atlantic routes, where the increase was over 70 per cent. B.E.A. carried 43,197 passengers (a gain of 9.1 per cent) and flew more than 13,000,000 passenger miles (7.5 per cent more than a year ago). B.E.A.'s total of revenue load ton-miles (1,537,311) was achieved for an offered capacity figure of 3,114,075 miles, the overall revenue load-factor having fallen rather sharply from 58.3 in January 1950, to 49.5 in January 1951. Although the Corporations' associate companies carried fewer passengers in January, they did experience a satisfactory increase in the carriage of mail and freight and recorded an overall revenue load-factor of 55 per cent, as compared with 37 per cent last year. The principal traffic statistics for the two Airways Corporations and B.E.A.'s associate operators are given in the table above.
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