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FLIGHT International, 31 May 1962 849 AIR CO E R C E BIGGER AND BIGGER BRITISH UNITED IN the list of the world's 250 scheduled passenger airlines (outside the USSR and China), British United Airways now ranks No 24 in terms of scheduled passengers carried. The acquisition by BUA of Jersey Airlines, which carried some 310,000 scheduled passengers in 1961, actually makes British United bigger than BOAC in terms of scheduled passengers carried. In terms of total output in capacity ton-miles, British United ranks 24th in a rather different list. The league tables are as follows:— Scheduled passengers (millions) United American Eastern TWA BEA Delta Air France TCA Pan American Bran iff Western SAS National Northwest Alitalia Ansett-ANA Lufthansa KLM Swissair Avian ca JAL TAA North Central British United carried, 1961 11.5 8.47 8.27 4.99 4.35 3.82 3.34 3.7 3.5 2.36 2.00 1.96 1.65 1.64 1.53 1.5 1.39 1.34 1.22 1.14* 1.13 I.I 1.01 0.99 Total c.t.m. 1961 (millions) Pan American American United TWA Eastern BOAC Air France KLM TCA Delta Northwest SAS Lufthansa Swissair National Bran iff Alitalia BEA Qantas Western Sabena JAL CPAL British United 2,200 2,000 1,700 1,350 1,220 853 715 686 586* 486 367 363 312 304 304 303 282 275 234 225 200 175 150 149 Note: Figures are rounded off. figure. I960 Note: Figures are rounded off. US car riers, also Qantas, Sabena and KLM, exclude non-scheduled services. Having still only partly digested Silver City, are British United attempting to bite off more than they can chew in taking over Jersey Airlines? Probably not, for two reasons: (1) Jersey Airlines is very much a going concern, profitable and well run. The fact that Mr M. L. Thomas, Jersey Airlines' managing director, con tinues in office and also joins the BUA board suggests that no big changes are to be made. In fact, Mr Myles Wyatt, chairman of Air Holdings Ltd (the holding company of the British United Airways group) says: "It is not our intention in the foreseeable future to change the company's name or to make any material alterations to its staff and structure." (2) The addition of Jersey Airlines may well ease, rather than aggravate, the managerial and operational indigestion resulting from the acquisition of Silver City. A glance at the Silver City route map, with its connections with the Channel Islands from Blackpool, Newcastle and Leeds/Bradford, suggests scope for the integration into Jersey Airlines of services which might have been rather difficult to fit into the general British United dom estic pattern. Announcement of the take-over, briefly reported in last week's issue, came as a complete surprise to the industry (including, it is believed, to BEA). The take-over was accomplished by Air Holdings Ltd purchasing, for an undisclosed sum, the entire share capital of Jersey Airlines. Jersey's order for six Herald 200s, of which two have been delivered, remains unaffected. REPLACING THE DC-3 APPROPRIATELY enough, Douglas Aircraft continue to look seriously at the elusive DC-3 replacement market. According to recent evidence before the US Senate Commerce Aviation Sub committee by Mr J. R. McGowen, Douglas vice-president, an STOL design capable of carrying up to 25 passengers is being studied. Given about $5m support by Congress, the first of five prototypes could, he said, be flying by next summer. The CAB's chairman, Mr Alan Boyd, recently indicated the possibility of Government support for the right DC-3 replacement project, and he listed some desired criteria (Flight International, May 17, page 774). Mr McGowen of Douglas expressed doubt about the attainment of a price as low as $500,000; and, like Mr Boyd, he did not say whether the type would be jet or turbo prop. Other contenders are Aerojet-General, with an 18-seater named "Downey," with a 1,000ft take-off and rear-loading; and de Havilland Canada with the 17-seat, four Lycoming piston-engined DHC.8 (see issue of April 26, page 645). Dork intruder at Heathrow: a Supermarine Swift in the Central Area is seen shortly before it began the braking trials described on pages 852-3. The pilot was Mr D. G. ("Dizzy") Addicott, cf Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd's test pilot staff, who races motor cars in his spare time uv w
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