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FLIGHT International. 16 August 196: Central African Airways nave leased a 75-seat DC-68 from Alitalia, to supplement their five Viscounts, six DC-3s and six Beavers. It will be (he largest aircraft yet operated by CAA, who hope to have it in service in October AIR COMM ERCE SUPER BROUSSARD SWINGS AHEAD THE prototype Nord Aviation MH.260 Super Broussard and the first two production MH.260s have now flown nearly 900hr on manufacturer's trials from the company's airfield at Villaroche near Paris. Certification of the MH.260 should have been completed by the time this issue appears. France's domestic carrier Air Inter plan to lease five MH.260s from Nord this autumn for their less dense traffic routes, a trial operation which it is hoped will lead to the eventual purchase of several more aircraft. As reported in Flight International for July 26, Wideroe's of Norway have entered into an agreement with Nord which provides for the lease of one MH.260 for a period from December 1962 and an option on two MH.262s—the pressurized version—for delivery towards the end of ] 963. This is the first operator to place an option on the 262. During September an MH.260 will be demonstrated in Norway. Since design work started on the pressurized MH.262 with Bastan VI engines in April 1961, construction of the prototype has ad vanced well, as indicated in the photograph taken at the Chatillon works published in last week's issue. ICAO'S CARGO PRIMER TO appreciate the value of ICAO's recent Air Freight Study ("Trends and Development in the World Air Freight Industry: A Preliminary Study and Forecast") it is useful to recall that the object of the exercise was "to assist governments, airlines and others as they take decisions on future policy concerning air freight." To criticize the study on the grounds that it is lacking in original research or intellectual analysis is quite beside the point, for the Organization's Economics and Statistics Branch—which prepared the study—has sensibly concentrated at this stage on straight-for ward description. For those who wish to learn all about air freight, there is no other single document which provides so much useful information, and all for a mere J 1.25 (or 8s 8d from HMSO). The study opens with an analysis of the industry's global dimen sions: a past growth rate of 10 per cent (less than passenger traffic); annual revenues (1961) of $600m; an average revenue rate of 25 pence l.t.m. (about half that of passenger or mail traffic); two-thirds of traffic carried in holds of passenger aircraft; market still untapped (for every ton of surface freight, only one pound of airfreight). There follows a discussion on the peculiar nature of airfreight, the main points being a one-way movement (unlike passengers, freight rarely comes home again); an acute problem of directional imbalance; a concentration on a few large-scale users; a preference for night travel; and a relative lack of seasonal variation. Also dis cussed is the need to consider airfreight as only a stage in the pipe line from "door to door." The following two chapters are related, the first dealing with two current changes on the aircraft front—the recent arrival of genuine all-cargo aircraft, coupled with a vast increase in the hold capacity of the latest passenger aircraft—and the next chapter examines the prospects for tariff reduction. In 1960, according to ICAO, all freighters operated on average only half full, while the available freight capacity in holds of passenger aircraft was only one-third full. Against this background, the Organization predicts a 30 per cent reduction in average rates by 1965. Having described the difficulties and tribulations of earlier fore casters the report goes on to use this predicted rate reduction as the basis of its own forecast. After comparing various formuls against past achievement, the Organization accepts as reasonable the proposition that the volume of freight traffic expands by the square of the factor by which rates are reduced (i.e. if rates are halved—that is reduced by a factor of two—then volume would quadruple). Working on these main assumptions, it would seem that world air freight would more than treble in the five years 1960-65 but would then slow down to a trebling over the next decade. EUROCONTROL AND THE FAA TOP officials of the six-nation Eurocontrol association and the US Federal Aviation Agency had a two-day meeting earlier this month in Washington. The idea was to exchange views on research and development in air traffic control and to maintain liaison between Eurocontrol and the FAA. Mr N. E. Halaby, administrator of the FAA, said that long-range high speed transports are "truly international," and as such must operate in standard systems of internationally established air navi gation facilities and services. Both the FAA and Eurocontrol. he said, must co-operate in the formation of plans and programmes based upon ICAO international standards. The Eurocontrol delegation was led by M Rene Bulin of France. director of the Eurocontrol association. Accompanying him were Mr Roy Broadbent, UK Ministry of Aviation, and Dr F. Hent- chel of Germany. BOAC's MANILA RIGHTS BRITAIN has asked the Philippine Government to withdraw the cancellation, due to be effective from last Tuesday, August 14. of BOAC's temporary landing rights at Manila. The British feel that the Philippine Civil Aeronautics Board's action violates the terms of the UK. - Philippines bilateral air agreement. Further British action—which could lead to the suspension of PAL's regular flights between Manila and Hong Kong—is being withheld pending a satisfactory reply. The Philippine move appeared to be a reprisal against the refusal of the British Government to grant Philippine Air Lines traffic rights at Hong Kong on the airline's weekly Manila - Bangkok DC-8 flights. The British view is that PAL does not have rights to fly through Hong Kong to any point west of Bangkok and HMG is not satisfied that the terms of the charter arrangements between KLM and PAL are such as to ensure that KLM are not obtaining. through the back door, Hong Kong rights to which they are not entitled under the UK - Dutch bilateral air agreement. BO AC operate three flights a week through Manila on services from London to Tokyo and from Hong Kong to Australia. A Philippine official is reported to have said, when asked whether Britain might now suspend PAL's regular flights between Manila and Hong Kong: "That is the risk we have to take." WHAT IS A SCHEDULED SERVICE? A NOTE in Flight International for August 2 raised the question of how to define a scheduled service, in view of the Air Transport Licensing Board's recent "tentative opinion" that services liKe those of Caledonian between Luxembourg and Lourenco Marques may be "akin to scheduled services." The Board, it will be recalled, did not uphold BOAC's applica-
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