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506 FLIGHT International, 5 April 19 Now in service at London Heathrow is the new BEA double-decker passenger coach with the novel baggage-loading boot. Details were given in "Flight International" for January 4, page 33 Gatwick has overtaken Glasgow, and the Isle of Man has overtake Birmingham. Biggest drop was experienced by Southamptc (Eastleigh)—down from 91,000 to less than 10,000 (though the fa. that it has just become a Customs airport may restore business biggest increase was Bournemouth (Hum)—up from 96,000 i 220,000. Customs for Southampton Southampton became a Custon airport on March 13. Swissair's Profit Swissair report a profit in 1961 of about £10,4! on revenues of £31,150,000. Cubana Ilyushin Crash An 11-14 of Cubana crashed off Cuba o March 28, killing all 22 on board. New Arrivals At London Heathrow On March 28 the new No. passenger building at London Heathrow handled its first arrival No Caravelles For Ireland The Irish Government has, for th time being, not sanctioned Aer Lingus expenditure on two Cars velles. AIR COMMERCE WORLD'S BUSIEST AIRPORTS CHICAGO Midway is no longer the world's busiest airport, having been overtaken in 1961 by Los Angeles International. Midway now takes twelfth place in the list of America's busiest airports, which in 1961 were as follows:— Aircraft Movements Los Angeles Chicago O'Hare Miami International Washington N.Y. International Tamiami Phoenix Van Nuys Long Beach Denver Honolulu Chicago Midway 324,993 318,526 310,731 297,082 290,134 289,605 288,587 281,336 276,479 267,386 257,685 249,869 BOAC's 10,000hr Comet Comet 4 G-APDB is the first BOA* Comet to achieve 10,000hr. One of the first two to be delivered o September 29, 1958, it was this particular aircraft which operate the world's first transatlantic jet service. New India-USA Agreement It is reported in Interavia that th US will allow Air-India translantic schedules to be increased fror five to seven, in return for a reciprocal increase in PanAm an TWA flights from eight to ten. North-South Airlines Wound Up Creditors owed £7,000 success fully applied to Sir Leonard Stone in the Lancashire Chancer Court for the compulsory winding up of North-South Airlines o March 12. Derby IT Schedules Another independent, the fifth, has applie for inclusive tours on a scheduled-service basis: Derby Aviation hav asked the ATLB for licences from the 1963 summer season fror Manchester/Derby/Birmingham to Palma and Barcelona operate, with Argonauts or DC-3s. BRITAIN'S BUSIEST AIRPORTS DURING 1961, according to figures just published by the Ministry of Aviation, the two London airports Heathrow and Gatwick together handled about 7m passengers and 200,000 aircraft move ments—increases of some 12 per cent and 11 per cent respectively over 1960. The following table shows the trend since 1959, Gat- wick's first full year of operation (figures rounded off):— Aircraft Movements Passengers x Im London Heathrow London Gatwick 1961 | /960 157,500 i 146,500 j 44,500 ! 36,000 i 1959 | 130,000 22,000 /96/ 6.18 0.81 /960 5.38 0.48 /959 4.10 0.37 Of particular note is Gatwick's big stride forward last year, when 70 per cent more passengers were handled. Traffic went up last year at Britain's airports as a whole by 21 per cent in numbers of passengers (12.8m) and by 11 per cent in numbers of aircraft movements (447,000). The ten busiest airports in 1961 in terms of passengers handled were as follows:— London H. Manchester Jersey London G. Glasgow Belfast Southend Prestwick Isle of Man Birmingham Passengers 1961 6,176,318 944,505 816,525 812,656 760,608 515,204 488,383 366,686 332,048 329,873 Handled I960 5,380,937 751,451 685.685 475,020 652,180 428,533 381,052 301,257 275,343 283,566 There are some changes of place in the 1961 league: London UAA Viscount Crash One of UAA's Viscounts was extensivel damaged in a crash landing near Wadi Haifa on March 16. Th aircraft was on a scheduled flight from Jerusalem to Cairo where i had been unable to land because of weather. The aircraft crashed it is reported, due to lack of fuel. There were no injuries. Deterring The Long Car-Parkers Now in force at Londoi Heathrow's central-area car parks are increased charges for period of over 48hr (£1 per day) and over 96hr (£2 per day). Firm outside the airport providing car storage and ferrying facilities a cheaper rates are Airpark Garages, West Drayton 3681; Steel Griffiths, Skyport 9661; Stanwell Car Storage, Skyport 9144 Cranford Hall Garage, Hayes 3268. BOAC's New Western Services BOAC's transatlantic "Mon arch" 707 services are being stepped up to thrice-daily frequenc; this summer, and from May 4 a non-stop San Francisco - Londor 707 service (one stop westbound) will be introduced. It will operati twice-weekly from May 27. From April 26 BOAC will open it: first-ever USA - Continent service with twice-weekly Los Angeles London - Frankfurt flights. Baghdad International Iraq's new international airport a Baghdad, situated nine miles to the west of Tel el Milh, is expectet to be completed by 1968 at a cost of about £15m under a contrac awarded to Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners of London. Main run way will be about 9,850ft with provision for more than 13,000ft Work is due to start this year and it is hoped that the airport wil be operational before the end of 1965.
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