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1961
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FLIGHT, 19 October 1961 645 Appointed air safety officer for Aer Lingus is Commandant Andrew J. O'Shea, AFRAeS, hitherto an Irish Air Corps technical officer LUFTHANSA MAY LOSE £14m FURTHER details are now available of Lufthansa's loss ofDM39m (£3.5m) during 1960 (Flight, October 5). Of the DM39m made up by Government subsidy, DM20.3m wasprovided to cover special depreciation on propeller aircraft made obsolescent by the introduction of jets. It is reported that Lufthansaexpects its operating loss this year to be something like four times as great— that is to say about £14m. Herr W. A. Kittel, a member of the board, is said to have regrettedthe "fly American" campaign in the US, which has adversely affected Lufthansa's all-important North Atlantic business. Dr H. J.Abs, chairman, has said that in the second quarter of this year the airline sold 49 per cent of the seats offered on the North Atlanticroute compared with 66 per cent in the same period last year. On the question of Air Union, Dr Abs says it is "quite untrue"that the plan is dead or that it will be "watered down out of all recognition." Air Union, he says, must be so constituted that itwill increase the share of all its partners in world air transport. These are the first words spoken in public by one of its members forsome time about Air Union, which has appeared to be dormant for some 12 months or so. Whether there proves to be any founda-tion for Dr Abs"s optimism, or if the other Air Union partners share his views, remains to be seen. AIRLINER MARKET PLACE THE Boeing Stratocruiser has not entirely disappeared fromairline service, and a reminder of this is provided in the current range of Air-Britain publications in which is recorded theacquisition of an ex-PanAm Stratocruiser by the recently-formed Ecuadorean carrier Linea Internacional Aerea SA, possibly forthis airline's Guayaquil-Quito route. The Flying Tiger Line has leased an L.1049H Super Constellation to Trans-InternationalAirlines Inc, a Florida-based "non-sked," and Northwest has sold a DC-7C to President Airlines, who have named it "FranklinRoosevelt." Air forces, as well as charter and non-scheduled operators, arein the market for surplus piston-engined transports, as is emphasized by the recent sale by PanAm of three DC-6Bs to the PortugueseAir Force, and one of the two DC-6Bs of Jugoslovensky Aerotrans- port (JAT) has been sold or transferred to the Jugoslav Air Force.Some unreported DC-6B sales in recent months include single examples of this type from American Airlines to Lloyd AeroBoliviano, from United to United States Overseas Airlines and from SAStoKar-AirO/Y. Continentale Deutsche Luftreederei, the Ger-man independent, has leased a DC-6B from UAT and acquired an additional DC-4 to supplement the three DC-4s it already has,while American has sold a DC-6 to Compania Ecuatoriana de Aviacion—CEA. The Ecuadorian carrier AREA has acquired a DC-4 from Northwest, while PanAm has sold an aircraft of thistype to Trans-Mediterranean Airways. Straits Air Freight Express has acquired two ex-Pakistani AirForce Bristol Freighter 31s to add to the five of this type they already own, while the rapid growth of Japanese domestic airtransport has resulted in the formation of several new carriers. One of these is Fuji Airways, which has acquired an ex-GarudaHeron IB through C. Itoh & Co, while another. North Japan Koku KK, acquired two Convair 240s from Mohawk, while AHNippon Airways has acquired two more Convair 440s, bringing its fleet of this type to five. BOAC STRIKE REPORT '"THE report of the committee of investigation inquiring into theA 12-day strike of BOAC maintenance workers in July was issued last week. The strike, it will be recalled, started when themanagement introduced a new supervisory system. The six-man committee, consisting of four union representatives and two fromBOAC, was set up by the National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport, and after a full and penetrating survey has made aseries of unanimous recommendations; in the course of seven meetings the committee heard evidence from 31 witnesses andconsidered 31 letters. Some of the recommendations are worth recording as they couldmaterially alter and improve relations between management and workers. The report generally appears to favour the new supervisoryscheme but the recommendations point to lack of communication between management and staff. In general the committee considersthat no group of workers has been adversely affected by the new system, and it counsels the workers' representatives "to ensure thatthe information they report is distinct from the opinions they personally hold." The report also criticizes union leaders for failing to pass on fullinformation to the workers. Other points made by the report concern choice of supervisors, licence training, promotion, andclerical assistance for the new supervisors. On the latter, the report recommends the corporation to try and devise means ofreducing paperwork both in the workshops and on the hangar floor. Members of the committee were Mr J. Hendy of the ETU,Mr G. Bone of the AEU, Mr Ian Mikardo and Mr Clive Jenkins of ASSET, MrR. C. Amoore and MrL. Atherton of BOAC. OVERSEAS WOUND UPF OLLOWING the voluntary liquidation of Overseas AviationEngineering (GB) Ltd, which showed unsecured liabilities for £147,211 due to 385 creditors (see last week's issue), the compulsorywinding-up of the "operating company," Overseas Aviation (CI) Ltd, was ordered in the High Court on October 9. The winding-up was ordered by Mr Justice Buckley on the joint petition of BP Trading Ltd and Rolls-Royce Ltd. The petitioners' counsel saidthat they were owed £509,000. The claim of BP Trading Ltd was not accepted because there was a claim outstanding for substantialdamages against BP Trading Ltd for breach of contract. Mr J. G. Stoneman, QC, for a shareholder, Mr Ronald Myhill,who is chairman of Overseas Aviation Ltd, said he was also a creditor. The making of a winding-up order was not opposed.Mr M. Jacomb, who was counsel for Rolls-Royce and BP Trading, also represented supporting creditors, BOAC for £109,000 andWAAC (Nigeria) Ltd for £13,000. Further details of the company's financial position were given in Flight for August 24, page 269. Bankruptcy proceedings against Overseas Aviation (CI) Ltd,which went into voluntary liquidation in August, were to have been heard in Jersey last week. The proceedings were instituted inJersey on August 26, when the action was brought by WAAC (Nigeria) Ltd. At the time the court was told that there were nofixed assets in the Island and no money was in the bank. WAAC (Nigeria) Ltd therefore withdrew their claim. Seen recently at Luton Airport, Autair's main operating and maintenance base, is one of this independent's DC-3s. The DC-4 belongs to Trans-Mediterranean Airways, who now use Luton rather than London for their freight flights out of the UK. This new independent is handled at Luton by Lutair, an Autair company
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