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1951
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PLIGHT, 5 October 1951 465 CIVIL AVIATION ... B.E.A. INCREASED FARES BECAUSE of the rising cost of operation, B.E.A., together withseveral foreign airlines operating parallel routes betweenBritain and the Continent, will increase many of its fares from October 16th. The increases will apply both to normal andexcursion rates. For example, the normal return fare from London to Paris will now be £15 6s instead of £14 and the off-peak excursion rate will be £12 instead of £11. Other new return fares (shown with present rates in parentheses) will be as follows:Rome, £58 ios (£57 12s); Barcelona, £43 8s (£39 7s); Berlin, £42 6s (£39 7s); Geneva, £29 9s (£28 9s); Milan, £49 3s (£47 16s). Excursion fares on certain routes in addition to the Paris runwill also be advanced. There will, however, be a number of con- cessions which will, to some extent, offset the greater cost oftravel. Return tickets on Continental routes will remain valid for a year instead of—as at present—only six months. On U.K.internal services the 12-month validity period began on October 1st. In addition, the age limits on students' tickets will be extendedto their 26th birthday instead of their 21st. B.E.A.'s announcement, incidentally, coincides with one byAer Lingus to the effect that, from October 21st, there will be substantial fare reductions on all routes. In some cases, notablythe Birmingham-Glasgow route, the rates will be the lowest ever charged. The actual decreases range from 3^ per cent on theDublin-Amsterdam service, to 11 per cent on the Liverpool route. Tickets will be valid for 17 days, and the new fares are:Dublin to London, £9 18s; Liverpool, £5 12s; Manchester, £5 19s; Birmingham, £7 13s; Bristol, £8 14s; Glasgow, £6 15s;and Amsterdam, £22 4s. There will be no change in the Dublin- Isle of Man, Shannon and Paris rates. Thus, day travel on theDublin-London route will now be actually cheaper than on the summer "Starflight" services. Aer Lingus is also intending toincrease frequencies considerably to accommodate the greater volume of traffic which is expected. There will also be new freigh-ter services to Glasgow, Birmingham and Liverpool. EUROPEAN AIR TRAFFIC MEETING A CDRE. W. E. G. MANN, C.B.E., D.F.C., M.I.E.E., the• M.C.A.'s director-general of navigational services, is to lead a U.K. delegation, which will include representatives from theAdmiralty, Air Ministry and the airline corporations, to a special I.C.A.O. meeting called to discuss the co-ordination of air trafficin Western Europe. The meeting will take place in Paris on Octo- ber 8th, and its main function will be to examine the difficultiescreated by the existing and the prospective flows of traffic in cer- tain parts of Western Europe, with particular attention being paidto those areas in which extensive civil and military operations take place side by side. The conference is to be attended by repre-sentatives of all European states concerned with these traffic control problems. FILIAL FORMATION: Just before setting out on their delivery flight to Yugoslavia, these two pilots of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport happily displayed their newly acquired Short Sealands in close proximity to a third machine flown by one of the manufacturers' test pilots. The two ]A aircraft will be used on domestic services along the Dalmatian coast. BREVITIES AIR services between Holland and Australia, which were broken•**• off during the last war, will shortly be resumed as the result of an agreement which was signed between the two governmentsin Canberra, Australia, last week. * * * Under arrangements made with I.C.A.O., InternationalAeradio, Ltd., will provide three instructors to run courses in radio communications (operations and maintenance) and air-traffic control at Karachi, for personnel of the Pakistan Department of Civil Aviation. * * * Mr. H. A. L. Patterson, C.B.E., known to thousands of inter- national air passengers as the manager of Gander Airport, New- foundland, has now been appointed Canadian representative to the I.C.A.O. Air Navigation Commission based at Montreal. Mr. Patterson will succeed Mr. Stuart Graham, who is now serving as civil aviation adviser to the Ethiopian government. * * * At a cost of 35 million dollars (about £12,500,000), AmericanAirlines have bought 30 aircraft from the Douglas Aircraft Cor- poration for delivery in 1953. The order includes 24 52-passengerDC-6Bs and six DC-6A freighters, each capable of lifting up to 27,000 1b of cargo. When this equipment has been delivered,A.A. will have increased their total seating capacity by 37 per cent and will have doubled their total cargo capacity. * * * It is reported from Sydney that American interests acting onbehalf of the Japanese Government may soon ask Britain to grant permission for Japanese aircraft to use Kai Tak (Hong Kong)and the municipal airport at Singapore as reciprocal rights for the landings which B.O.A.C. aircraft now make at Tokyo on servicesvia Okinawa. Australia will also be faced with a similar request in return for Japanese permission to Q.E.A. to land at Iwakuniand Haneda. * * * B.E.A. are reported to have shown interest in the idea of con-verting the Homes dnd Gardens Exhibition at the South Bank Festival site for use as a passenger arrival and departure station.Being centrally located, with adequate space for passenger coaches to drive in and out, it has obvious advantages over the Corpora-tion's present London terminal in Kensington High Street. The London County Council are also known to have shown sympathywith the idea. * * * The transport of freight by regular airlines to Australasia, theFar East and the East Indies, is now almost at a standstill as a result of the current fuel shortage. Nor can charter aircraft anylonger be of assistance on these routes, because they cannot obtain aviation spirit east of Bahrein. According to brokers' reports,the accumulation of cargo for eastern destinations is colossal, and no further bookings can be accepted. Even the alternative westernroutes via North America, New Zealand and Australia are out of the question because of the vast quantities of cargo which haveaccumulated at the trans-shipment points of Vancouver and San Francisco. * * * The M.C.A. has now decided to put into effect the recom- mendation, contained in the Brabazon Report on landings and take-offs in bad weather, that weather minima should be expressed in terms of runway visual range and critical height for landing, and in terms of runway visual range and cloud ceiling for take-off. It will continue to remain the operator's responsibility to establish weather minima for the use of his pilots, but, under the terms of the amended Article 17 of the Air Navigation Order, 1949, operators will in future be required to notify the Minister of such minima and of any changes in their values which may •subsequently be made. * * •* On his return from the recent I.A.T.A. meeting in London, Mr. W. Hudson Fysh, chairman and managing director of Q.E.A., said in Sydney last week that Australia would have to order air- craft in proportion to her overseas routes if she intended to remain on a competitive basis. Mr. Fysh mentioned that there is at present a severe world shortage of aircraft for international air transport. Referring to the D.H. Comet, in which Qantas is known to be interested, Mr. Fysh thought that the first Mk. II (powered by Avons) would probably be test-flown towards the middle of next year. B.O.A.C. would eventually use this type on the England- Australia route. Although, said Mr. Fysh, this machine would greatly reduce the flying time between the two countries, it would have a very limited capacity for freight and mail and would probably still have to be supplemented by aircraft such as the Constellation.
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