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206 FLIGHT, 5 August 1955 CIVIL AVIATION . . . expected to attract more freight (particularly in mail and news-papers) and, with the onset of the tourist season, more passengers. The Heron now used on a thrice-weekly service between Delhiand Lahore will also be utilized for a service betweeen Delhi and Rajkot via Bikaner, Jodhpur and Ahmedabad on the alternatethree days. STATE "PERSUASION" TPHE chairman of America's Civil Aeronautics Board, Mr. Ross-•• Rizley, stated recently that the State Department "persuaded the Board to give Lufthansa the right to compete with Americanairlines in transatlantic Latin-American business." State Depart- ment officials told him, he says, that a more liberal policy on newGerman requests would be necessary to support America's foreign policy objectives, and such strong representations were made thatthe Board felt "maybe we should be more liberal." An agreement giving Lufthansa rights to compete with American airlines inreturn for American rights to fly in Germany was signed on July 7th, despite protests from most major American operators. NEW SERVICES APPROVED TPHE M.T.C.A. announce Ministerial approval, after consider-•*• ing the recommendations of the Air Transport Advisory Council, for operation of the following services during 1955 : Eagle Aviation, Ltd.—An internal service between London andJersey until August 6th. Dan-Air Services, Ltd.—An inclusive-tour service betweenLondon (Blackbushe) and Calvi (Corsica) until September 25th. Lancashire Aircraft Corporation. Ltd.—An inclusive tour ser-vice between Blackpool (Squires Gate) and Beauvais (Tille) (or Cormeille-en-Vexin (Pontoise) until August 15th) until October5th. The Minister has also approved the following application foran amendment to an air service: — B.K.S. Air Transport, Ltd.—The inclusion of an optional trafficstop at Leeds (Yeadon) and a Customs stop at Southend on their inclusive-tour service between Newcastle and Basle. KANGAROO CALL AT PERTH FROM August 10th Qantas Empire Airways are introducinga further variation in their Sydney-London Kangaroo route by calling twice a week at Perth, Western Australia. The alter-native routes then offered will be: Sydney-Singapore, via Darwin and Jakarta or Perth and Jakarta; Singapore-Karachi via Calcutta,Bangkok and Calcutta or Colombo and Bombay; Karachi-London, via Cairo and Rome or Beirut, Rome and Frankfurt. Extensionof the Kangaroo service to Perth will give Western Australia a direct link with South Asia, the Middle East and Europe, andwith South Africa. AUSTRALIAN CIVIL HELICOPTER IT is proposed by Australian National Airways and the MolyneuxCompany to operate helicopter services, based on Melbourne and Sydney, in late 1955 and early 1956. A.N.A. will use a BristolSycamore (mainly for experimental and charter work), and the Molyneux Company plan to operate an S-55 out of Melbourneand Sydney on scheduled passenger flights. Australia's Depart- ment of Civil Aviation has almost completed the framing ofregulations for the operation of these services. It is further reported from Australia that Mr. G. C. Molyneuxis developing a helicopter of his own design, with "a new type of rotor head." : PANAM AND SIAM "" '/'::'":" '":n- ' : " " 5" '• SIAM is expected to sign an agreement in Washington shortlywhereby Pan American World Airways would assist in expand- ing and improving Siam's commercial airline, Thai Airways Co.,Ltd. It is reported from Washington that under the terms of the agreement PanAm would place 24 experts at the service of theSiamese Government to work together with 24 Siamese officials. Advice would be given on the improving of airfields, the handlingof cargo and passengers, and the maintaining of schedules. Siam would pay for this service "with counterpart funds released by theU.S. International Co-operation Administration Aid Program in Siam," and PanAm would have no financial interests in theSiamese airline. BREVITIES A NEW record for airline traffic is claimed by American Air-**-lines for June, in which month the company flew more than 686,000 passengers approximately 416 million passenger miles.This was the first month in the history of commercial aviation that any airline has flown more than 400 million passenger miles. In 1954 civil aircraft in New Zealand flew just on 94 millionpassenger miles and carried more than 66 million pounds of freight and mail. Additionally, more than 279,000 tons of top-dressing materials were distributed, involving over a million flights and the treatment of 2 million acres. is being constructed parallel to the existing runway, is 150ft,and 60ft-wide taxiways are being incorporated. At present the airport is open ten hours daily; an increase to 24 hr operation,following completion of the runway in September, is anticipated. The Amsterdam-Rome-Athens service of K.L.M. has been ex-tended to Tel Aviv, Israel. From Athens to Tel Aviv the service will be maintained by El Al Israel Airlines with Convairs charteredfrom K.L.M. The Dutch company are already operating two weekly services from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, one via Rome andthe other via Munich. A plan to spend more than 50 million marks (about £4,200,000sterling) on Diisseldorf Airport will make it the biggest in Europe by 1970. Making this announcement last week-end, theNorth Rhine-Westphalian Economics Minister, Dr. Friedrich Middlehauve, claimed that when the plan was completed theairport would be able to handle 5,000 passengers an hour. First Pakistani pilots to receive command appointments withPakistan International Airlines are Capt. D. P. David and Capt. Chaukat Husain, both of whom have more than 6,000 hr in theirlog books. The two new captains, who have previously flown as co-pilots on the airline's international and domestic services,will command Super Constellations on the Karachi-Dacca route. In a recent speech on Soviet civil aviation, Marshal Zharvo-ronkov, head of Aeroflot, said that Russian agricultural aircraft had been engaged on pest-control work in Persia, Czechoslovakiaand Hungary. A particularly large air expedition, he added, had recently been sent to China at the request of the People's Govern-ment to assist in agricultural duties. A 39 per cent increase for the first six months of this year inthe amount of cargo flown between the U.S.A. and Europe is' announced by Pan American. During June the airline flew2,958,000 lb over the Atlantic, against 2,126,000 lb for the same period last year. Four freight flights are now operated per weekin each direction—more than by any other carrier. . •-:• Four new luxury coaches have been introduced by K.L.M. forthe transportation of passengers between the Sloane Street ter- minal and London Airport. They will replace smaller coaches,which have been in use since 1948, and although 38 passengers could be accommodated, capacity has been reduced to 30 seatsto provide extra comfort. * * * International Aeradio, Ltd., have contracted to provide to theGovernment of Singapore, Department of Civil Aviation, two air traffic control officers for duty at Kallang Airport, Singapore. Theprovision of experienced staff for long or short tours of duty to assist in air traffic control, communications, airport management,fire services, briefing and aviation meteorology is one feature of I.A.L.'s service. The construction of a new 6,600ft runway at Benina Airport,Benghazi, is now nearing completion. For the last two years the airport has been restricted to aircraft not exceeding 40,000lb a.u.w. (with the exception of B.E.A. Elizabethans); when the new runway is completed, however, Benina will become anI.C.A.O. Category "D" airport. The width of the runway, which Within about ten months Lufthansa intends to provide refresher courses for 136 pilots, some of them formerly with Lufthansa and others ex-members of the Luftwaffe. At present 81 pilots are undergoing refresher courses, of whom 44 wish to obtain co-pilots' certificates for Convairs. At the end of this year Luft- hansa hopes to be able to start training pilots ab initio.
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