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1962
1962 - 0318.PDF
The Duke of Edinburgh is seen at the controls of the BEA Herald which he is using for his tour of South America. He has been putting in quite a few Herald hours on the tour, which is due to end on April 6, when he will return from Jamaica to London by BO AC Britannia 312. The tour started on February 6 when the Duke flew by BOAC Britannia from London to British Guiana AIR COMMERCE . . . New EAT Services Executive Air Transport of Birmingham will inaugurate on April 3 their new scheduled Heron and DC-3 services between Birmingham and Newcastle, Bournemouth and Sandown. BOAC Comets to Libya On April 3 a BOAC Comet service to Tripoli and Benghazi is to be inaugurated, superseding the existing Britannia services. Irish Car Ferry Bid East Anglian Flying Services (Channel Airways) have applied to the ATLB for a licence to operate vehicle ferry services with supplementary passengers between Liverpool and Dublin with Bristol Freighters and, later, Carvairs. Lufthansa's Heavy Loss A loss equivalent to £10.7m is likely to be reported by Lufthansa for 1961. This is less than the £14m originally forecast (Flight, October 19, page 645). In 1960 Lufthansa were granted a Federal Government subsidy of £3.35m. Help for Liverpool ? According to a statement by the Ministry of Aviation, following meetings with a deputation from Liverpool Airport, any public investment in the airport at the moment "would have to satisfy very strict criteria." V ' FLIGHT International, I March I9&2 Apron Services Hand-over Seven Ministry of Aviation staff at London Heathrow received new cap badges from BEA last week in the first stage of the take-over of apron services due for completion on April 1, when 700 ground staff will have changed employers, Brompton for Cunard Eagle On May 1 Cunard Eagle will take over the Brompton Air Station in London, when it will be used exclusively as the London checking-in point for all the airlines services. Meanwhile Cunard Eagle's passengers will continue to check in at Airways Terminal, Victoria. BOAC 707s Round the World From March 25 707s will be introduced by BOAC on the Eastern routes. At Hong Kong thev will join the existing west-about BOAC 707 services via the USA, Pacific and Tokyo. Comet 4s will continue to operate on all their present routes to the Middle and Far East and Australia. KLM All-Cargo to Manchester Yesterday, February 28, KLM inaugurated the first all-cargo service between the north of England and the Continent, with a four-nights-weekly DC-3 freighter service between Manchester and Amsterdam. The service is pooled with BEA and Aer Lingus. TCA Appointments The following new vice-president appoint ments are announced by TCA: Mr H. W. Seagrim, senior vp operations; Mr W. Gordon Wood, senior vp sales; Mr W. S. Harvey, vp finance and comptroller; Mr S. W. Sadler, vp adminis trative services; Mr H. C. Cotterall, vp purchases and stores; and Mr F. T. Wood, vp corporate services. Sabena 707 Crash Claims Boeing are named in two more damage suits filed in New York, in respect of the Sabena Boeing 707 crash at Brussels last year (see also Flight International for February 22). Boeing are charged with failing to provide Sabena with "reason able instructions" for the safe control of the aircraft. Two New Law Books Just published are: (1) The Law of Inter national Air Transport, by Dr Bin Cheng, published by Stevens, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4, price lOgns; and (2) Post-War International Civil Aviation Policy and the Law of the Air by Dr H. A. Wassenbergh, second revised edition, published by Martinus Mijhoff, The Hague, and received from KLM (price not quoted). Hughes Sues TWA Mr Howard Hughes and the US Tool Co are reported to have filed a counter suit for £130.7m against TWA and four credit institutions. The action is in answer to a £41m anti-trust suit filed last June by TWA, who claimed that Hughes was inter fering. Mr Hughes owns 78 per cent of TWA's stock but voting control is in the hands of a trust set up as a condition of the £59m jet financing programme by the credit institutions. Seen here at Singapore is the Britannia 102 leased by BOAC to Malayan Airways. The aircraft operates services from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Djakarta. At the end of the month the BOAC pilots will be replaced by UK- trained Malayan Airways pilots
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