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1959
1959 - 0344.PDF
FLIGHT, 169 •^January 1959 Boarding B.O.A.C. Comet G-APDE at London Airport on January 20 for India and Pakistan is the Duke of Edinburgh. Seen leaving the air- craft are the Queen and other members of the Royal Family AIR COMMERCE C.P.A.L. ACROSS CANADA THE arrival in Havana on December 17 of Cubana's firstPacific permission to op-rate a daily transcontinental service each way on the route Vancouver - Winnipeg - Toronto - Mon-treal. While falling well short of C.P.A.L.'s ambitions (in particular the airline hoped for a higher frequency and the in-clusion of traffic rights in Alberta), this is at least a start. The Board recommend a review in two years' time. Canadian Pacific's choice_ of equipment has not yet been clearlyestablished. DC-6Bs are immediately available, and Britannias could be placed on the route. But something faster may beappropriate when T.C.A. place DC-8s on their non-stop trans- continental service next January. SIGNS OF THE TIMES PRIMARILY as a result of last year's poor traffic, two of West*• Germany's five leading independents (see Flight, Novem- ber 14) have ceased operations.In December Aerotour were liquidated, three of their Vikings having been seized at Hamburg, Stavanger and Basle. Their twoDC-4s were sold to a newly formed operator, Continentale Deutsche Luftreederei. Shortly after this it was learned that theowner of Aerotour, Herr Helmut Krukenberg, had become associated with Transavia. This second carrier has also now gone into liquidation anda creditors' meeting is due to take place on February 10. Its two DC-4s are rumoured to have already been sold, two Vikings arebeing held at Blackbushe (one of these having been abandoned, the aircrew claiming that their salary payments were in arrear) andthe remaining three Vikings are being offered for sale on very reasonable terms—reportedly at about £12,500 per aircraft. A new general manager, Herr Karl Herfurtner, was appointedshortly before Transavia's financial condition became publicly known. Herr Herfurtner had originally founded the company in1956 but had relinquished control in the following year to Dr. H. Tigges, a well-known travel agent. Among the airline'screditors is Herr Carl Nolte who financed the purchase of Trans- avia's equipment. . t CUBANA BRITANNIAS \ E arrival in Havana on December 17 of Cubana's firstBritannia, carrying a team of 18 Bristol maintenance and service personnel, could perhaps have taken place at a more pro-pitious time. Up-to-the-minute reports from the team, however, show that in spite of the political upheaval they were able to The first of twelve Friendships for Trans-Australia Airlines flew at Schiphol on January 16—in distinctly un-Australian weather continue theit various activities in conjunction with the airlinewithout too much difficulty. Shortly after the revolution broke out the Bristol men wereinterviewed at the military headquarters of the new regime and given formal clearance to carry on with their duties. SinceJanuary 1 there has only been one day (when a Check 1 was due) on which the Britannia did not fly passenger services. During the first few days of January the Britannia made threereturn trips to Miami, carrying full loads in each direction. Six flights to Mexico City were also completed, again with capacityloads. On Sunday the 11th, with two other aircraft unserviceable, the Britannia was switched to Cubana's New York route and hassince been making the return flight each day. In the week ended January 14 the aircraft logged over 50 hours in service. The executive vioe-president and general manager of Cubana,Senor Juan M. Palli (who has controlled the airline since it became wholly Cuban-owned two years ago), is reported to have expressedhis thorough satisfaction with the performance of his company's first Britannia and to be looking forward to receiving the secondaircraft shortly and the remaining two according to programme. Cubana's chief pilot, Bill Cook, is now in this country to collect thesecond Britannia, and delivery is imminent. B.E.A. IN 1958 i"\NE airline is sure that better times lie ahead: the chairman of^ B.E.A. has recently expressed his "hope that the improve- ment from January to March will be sufficient to give us a smallprofit for 1958/59." By the law of averages B.E.A. should in 1958 have carried forthe first time in any twelvemonth as many as three million pas- sengers, equivalent to 1,000 million passenger-miles. It now seemscertain that these targets will be reached this year. Traffic Capacity ton-miles Load ton-miles ... Revenue load-factor Passengers carried Passenger miles flown . Passenger load-factor . Freight ton-miles Mail ton-miles ... Average staff numbers. C.T.M. per employee . Year ended December 31 1958 176,764.000 106,175,000 60.1% 2.760.000 961,242,000 62.3% 11,142,000 3,965,000 11,485 15,400 Year ended December 31 1957 156,229.000 101,000,000 64.6% 2.752.000 926,010,000 70.3% 9,747,000 3,593 000 10,848 14,400 Percent- age Variation + 13.1 + 5.1- 7.0 4- 0.3+ 3.8 - 11.4+ 14.3 + 10.4+ 5.9 + 6.9
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