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-u August 1951 263 7.£.A.L.'s new Solent "City of Belfast" photographed shortly before take-off on its recent delivery flight to New Zealand. T.E.A.L.'s SOLENT FLEET INCREASED ON Wednesday, August 22nd, a newly overhauled Solent leftthe Belfast works of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., on the first stage of a delivery flight to New Zealand. Appropriately named City of Belfast, the aircraft is to go into service with Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd. On its journey to New Zealand it will follow a route via Castle Archdale, Gander (Newfound- land), Norfolk (Virginia, U.S.A.) then down the east coast of America to Corpus Christi (Texas), San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island, Fiji, and thence to New Zealand. The 1,800 n.m. stage from Castle Archdale to Gander will be completed in one flight, while the 2,096-mile hop from Honolulu to Canton Islandwill also be a direct flight. Normally, aircraft bound for Australia choose the Middle East route. T.E.A.L. already use four Solentson services between New Zealand and Australia. An interesting sidelight on this flight is that City of Belfast willin effect, be following the trail blazed by other Short-built flying- boats which, before the war, established the first commercialpassenger service across the North Atlantic. These were, of course, the famous "C" Class flying-boats, and it is perhaps notgenerally appreciated that such a service was actually in opera- tion at that time. HEAVY TRAFFIC IN BRITISH GUIANAT HE spectacular increase in the traffic results of British Guiana Airways last year—as revealed in the recently published annual report—is said to have exceeded even the company's most optimistic expectations. In view of the fact that, during the past two years, most of the major mining concerns which provided the bulk of the payload traffic have closed down, it was thought that the company would have experienced a sharp fall in the available volume of traffic. In practice, however, B.G.A. have been able to record progress to such an extent that it now seems possi- ble that the airline may soon be able to operate on a self-sufficient basis, i.e., without the assistance of the annual subsidy paid by the Colony's Government. The most spectacular rise was seen in freight traffic, the volume of which, at 3,730,550 lb, exceeded that of the 1947-48 peak year by about 200 per cent. This healthy outlook in B.G.A.'s affairs is thought to be indicative of progress now being made in the development and expansion of communications in the interior— progress which has given the necessary impetus to industry in the remote areas of the Colony. Three industries in particular— balata, beef and tobacco—have contributed the bulk of the air- line's freight traffic during the past financial year. The company operates a fleet of Dakotas. BRITISH AIRWAYS OPERATING STATISTICS FOR APRIL, 1951 (Figures for the corresponding period of 1950 ore given in parentheses) Usable capacity ton-miles Revenue load ton-miles ... Overall rev. load-factor ... Available seat-miles Revenue pass.-miles Rev. load-factor (pass.) ... Total a/c-miles Revenue a/c-miles Revenue passengers wrgo itonst: Mail Freight Total revenue hr Total non-revenue hr Equivalent annual utiliza- tion (rev.hr per a/c) ... Percentage regularity Unduplicated route-miles Average stage flight (miles) B.O.A.C. All Areas 15,416,816 (/(,9/3,449) 9,716,775 (6,597,7//) 65.1 (56.0) 98,487,524 (72,992,284) 58,861,143 (40,253,955) 59.8 (55.2) 2,742,994 (2,502,928) 2,542,177 (2, (90,09/) 19,039 (/3,953) 210.4 (/56.0) 582.9 (372.8) 11,366 (/0.20/) 1,081 </.623) 2,064 ((,40/) 99.9 (98.3) 69,673 (70,052) 1,125 (1,081) B.O.A.C. Western Area 3,440,205 (2,264,077) 1,975,060 (/,220,354) 57.0 (53.9) 25,342,979 (/7.574.08/) 14,433.278 (8,636,225) 57.0 (49./) 441,223 (345,363) 427,040 (329,2(2) 5,016 (2,695) 31.6 (30.7) 113.2 (58.1) 1,736 (',359) 81 (92) ( )100.0 (97.2) 8,074 (6,9//) 1,570 C.338) B.O.A.C. Eastern Area 9,246,328 (7,348,/34) 6,749,456 (4,642,597) 73.0 (63.2) 58,184,690 (4/,80/,964) 38,303,801 (27,47/,435) 65.8 (65.7) 1,644,316 (/,434,795) 1,612,287 (1,400,654) 11,323 (8,723) • 156.6 (109.0) 392.1 (255.4) 7,382 (6,74/) 159 (136) ( )99.9 (99.0) 45,997 (46,//3) 1,086 (1,084) B.O.A.C. South American Area 2,233,448 (2,/69,/06) 992,259 (734,760) 44.4(33.9) 14,959,855 (/3,6/6,239) 6,124,064 (4,(46,295) 40.9 (30.5) 402,632 (453,254) 397,514 (436,284) 2,700 (2,750) 22.2 (/6.3) 77.6(59.3) 1,774 (1,984) 30 (89) — (—) 100.0 (96.9) 15.602 </7,028) 970 (938) B.E.A. All Divisions 4,768,709 (4./08.002) 2,933,745 (2,374,655) 61.8(57.9) 39.133,701 (32,760,878) 24,700,946 (20,249,95/) 63.1 (6/ 8) 1,980,520 ((,670,843) 1,840,763 (1,569,38/) 77,901 (68,364) 494.3 (371.8) 1,085.4(790.3) 11,960 ((0,496) 1,026(769) 1,681 ((.447) 97.4 (98. () 17,020 (13,151) 244 (222) B.E.A. Continental Division 3,772,016 (3,207,323) 2,381,045 ((,869,369) 63.3(58.4) 30,388,718 (24,037,380) 19,405,609 (Z5,/25,676) 63.9 (62.9) 1,445,910 (/,/80,956) 1,424,505 (/,/66,284) 48,612 (39,255) 832.9 (590.8) 296.7(257.4) 8,614 (7.Z28) 140(100) 2,111 ((.837) 96.8 (98.1) 14,229 (10,344) 360 (358) B.E.A. British Division 996,693 (900,679) 552,700 (505,286) 56.0(56.2) 8,744,983 (8,723,498) 5,295,337 (5,/24,275) 60.6 (58.7) 432,315 (4/4,398) 416,258 (403,097) 29,289 (29.109) 197.6 (1/4.4) 252.5(199.5) 3,346 (3.368) 138 W0) 802 (I.OOI) 98.1 (98.2) 2,791 (2,807) 118 (112) B.E.A.'s Associates 178,646 (Z 60,307) 85,037 (40,610) 47.6(25.3) 992,360 (/,0//,Z26) 641,851 (350,753) 64.7 (34.7) 55,161 (100,105) 55,161 (100,105) 1.252 ((,879) 1.7 (0.3) 411.7(I86./) 459 (778) (—) — (—) 100.0(100.0) 2,092 (3,298) 144 (Z2I) TN April, 1951, the United Kingdom Airways CorporationA carried substantially more traffic than in the corresponding month of the previous year; nearly 13,000,000 short ton-miles were flown at an overall revenue load-factor of 64 per cent. These figures can be compared with 9,000,000 short ton-miles and a load-factor of 56 per cent for April, 1950. Most of the results for both airlines show marked increases over last year's figures, particularly so far as passenger traffic is concerned. B.O.A.C. recorded over 58,000,000 passenger- miles—a 46 per cent rise, and only slightly less than the record month of September, 1950. The passenger-miles flown in the Eastern, Western and South-American Areas increased by 39, 67 and 48 per cent respectively. In B.E.A.'s international passenger traffic results the sharp seasonal rise which appeared in March was seen to continue throughout April. In the Continental Division alone 19,000,000 revenue passenger-miles were flown, as compared with 16,000,000 in March and 15,000,000 in the previous April. It will be seen, also, that the amount of freight and mail carried by companies operating under associated agreements with B.E.A. was much greater than in the corresponding month of last year; the actual percentage increases for freight and mail ton-miles flown were 120.1 and 246.4 per cent respectively. It should be noted that the short ton of 2,000 1b is now being used by the M.C.A. in compiling these tables, instead of the long ton unit (2,240 lb) which was previously employed.
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