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FLIGHT International, I March 1962 32] A |R COM M ERCE . . Mr Colin H. Ranee is appointed to the new BO AC post of assistant sales manager, South America Air Transport free of charge is provided by the Hacienda Fleet—based at Burbank.—of four Constellation 049s, one DC-4 and two DC-3s. They are operated by the famous Las Vegas hotel and provide clients with free round-trip travel from seven major US cities. The DC-4 is "the only plane in the world with a piano bar." The US Court of Appeals recently held that these scheduled services must come under the jurisdiction of the CAB Mr Ansett's New Viscount About £A360,000 is the price paid by Ansett-ANA for the Cubana Viscount bought to replace the aircraft lost near Sydney last year. The figure was quoted by Mr Ansett in Melbourne recently. Hungarian Criticism of BEA The Hungarian Minister in London has described BEA's decision to withdraw its summer service to Budapest as "an unfortunate and short-sighted decision." The Anglo-Jugoslav Trade Council has protested at the similar with drawal of Belgrade services. Death of Mr Herlihy Mr John A. Herlihy, director of United Air Lines and senior vice-president engineering and maintenance, died in hospital at San Mateo, California, on February 10 after an illness of some weeks. He was 57, and had served with United or its predecessors for 32 years. BEA LOSS NOW INEVITABLE AS yet there is no sign of a recovery in BEA's rate of traffic growth, according to Lord Douglas, the chairman. Rough estimates for January show that international traffic did not increase over the January 1961 level—though domestic passenger traffic increased by 20 per cent. Load factors again fell, by as much as eight points on international services. This is the twenty-first consecutive month in which load factors have fallen in comparison with the corresponding month of the previous year. It seems that any recovery will now be too late to avert a loss for the 1961-62 financial year. As Lord Douglas says, "BEA*s concern now is whether traffic will recover in time to give us a good summer and get us back into a profitable position in 1962-63." POOLING IN AMERICA POOLING is definitely not a smile word in the USA; to Americans it connotes all sorts of anti-competitive, monopolistic, big-trust and generally un-American activities. The poolinc of revenues between airlines has never been, and probably never will be, allowed; but the pooling of equipment, of spares in particular, has now been approved. It seems surprising that this obviously sensible method of cutting costs, as practised widely among non-US airlines, should have been so long deliberated; but now the CAB has given its blessing, and seven US airlines—American, Braniff, Eastern, Pan American, United, Western and TWA—will, as fiom April 1, pool 315 kinds of spare parts for Boeing jet airliners at 34 airports. About a million pounds* worth of spares is involved. According to Aviation Daily, TWA took the lead in bringing the airlines together for talks about pooling Boeing spares. Discussions have also been held with a view to pooling spares for other jets. KLM FOR AIR UNION? THIRD thoughts by KLM on its membership of Air Union, forecast in Flight International for January 25 (page 119), are now evolving into negotiations. Mr L. H. Slotemaker, KLM's executive vice-president, said in Paris on February 15 that the Netherlands will take part as an observer in the forthcoming ministerial meetings among the French, German, Italian and Belgian Governments. Mr Slotemaker said that there was now no longer any question of KLM's entering into a consortium agreement with SAS and Swiss air. KLM withdrew from the early discussions about Air Union in April 1959. The defection of the Dutch airline altered the concept of Air Union as a united European airline with its roots in the Common Market. KLM's re-application for membership, if it comes to pass, will breathe new life into the original ideal. BRITANNIA CZECH FLIGHTS "MISLEADING and mischievous" were among the words used by the U K. representative of Czechoslovak Airlines in a recent letter to a Sunday newspaper. He was referring to an article suggesting that the new Prague-Havana route may be used for the supply of arms to Cuba. CSA, he points out, was one of the first companies to join IATA. "and we have always strictly observed the rules and regulations of this and other bodies. I should like to assure you that the route between Prague and Havana has been established on the same basis as any other civil airline—as a result of the require ments of passenger and commercial transport." A special interest attaches to the new CSA route, because it is the first Communist air service to the Americas, and because the aircraft used is a Britannia 318 acquired from Cubana. The service was inaugurated on February 3 with intermediate technical stops at Shannon and Gander, with Prestwick and Manchester as desig nated alternates. It is a weekly service departing from Prague on Saturdays, and the trip takes 23hr 40min. CSA have been expanding very rapidly in the last five years, from I2^m capacity ton-km in 1956 to 514m capacity ton-km last year; the figure this year is expected to be nearly 80m. A fifth Tu-104A, it is reported, may be added to the fleet, and the 11-18 fleet is to be increased from five to six.
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