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FLIGHT International, 4 October 1962 553 of most current engines, recent work having included the Rolls- Royce Conway and Dart, P & W 2800 and 2000, Bristol Proteus and Hercules, and Wright Turbo-Compound. The section also employs men with Avon experience. The radio workshop can undertake complete overhauls on many British and American installations, including VHF, VOR, ILS, HF and ADF. A number of radar installations can also be tested and overhauled in the radio workshop. A large stock of British and American spares, including AGS and AN standard parts, is held by the company. Enquiries should be addressed to Mr M. T. Cullen, sales manager, maintenance division, Cunard Eagle Airways, London Airport, Hounslow, Middlesex, telephone Skyport 3611. PROGRESS WITH BOAC-CUNARD FOUR months after the announcement of BOAC-Cunard Ltd, slow but sure progress has been made in the dismantling of Cunard Eagle services and establishments in the western hemisphere. The prob lems involved—personal, operational, legal and commercial— have been immense; and it says much for BOAC, the masters of BOAC-Cunard, that such apparently smooth progress has been made. When BOAC-Cunard was announced there were fears for the future of the Cunard Eagle's flying, ground and administrative staffs in New York, Bermuda, Nassau and Miami. In the event, BOAC appear to have leaned over backwards to absorb as many Cunard Eagle people as possible. For example, Cunard Eagle's manager in Miami has been appointed BOAC's Florida district sales manager (a new post), and most of the CEA staff in Miami are now working for BOAC or its subsidiary Bahamas Airways. In Nassau, Bahamas Airways have absorbed many of the local CEA ground, office and flying staff, and also others who were based in Bermuda and New York. In Bermuda, the fountainhead of Cunard Eagle's western hemisphere activities, the company's office on Front Street has been closed and senior staff absorbed in the neighbouring BOAC establishment. There have been redundancies, and there may be others; there are still some senior CEA people in New York whose futures are not clear, and details of the transfer of Boeing flying staff to BOAC have not yet been finally settled. It looks, however, as though most CEA 707 pilots and crews will soon be wearing BOAC uniforms and be employed by BOAC. BOAC-Cunard itself does not, as at present planned, employ staff. A sad and symbolic moment last week was the repainting and G-registering in BOAC colours of Cunard Eagle's VR-registered Boeing 707 (the independent's second 707 was delivered last July in the corporation's colours). Sad and unfortunate though the eradication of Cunard Eagle's emblem and ethos from the western hemisphere may be, the task of estabhshing BOAC-Cunard seems to be going ahead with goodwill and co-operation all round. It is still impossible to say when BOAC-Cunard will be oper ational. As outlined in Flight International for July 12, this depends on the transfer of the existing Cunard Eagle and BOAC US "402" foreign carrier permits to the new company. No appli cation has yet been made to the CAB, nor will be made until BOAC-Cunard itself has worked out all complex details. The appli cation, probably in the form of a package, may be made soon. Meanwhile, however, all operations to US points continue under existing BOAC and CEA "402" permits, except for Cunard Eagle's New York - Bermuda Viscount services, which were suspended on September 9. The Cunard Eagle mid-Atlantic 707 services from London to Miami via Bahamas and Bermuda are now being oper ated by 707s in BOAC colours, but with Cunard Eagle identi fication and flight numbers, and of course to the account of BOAC- Cunard. The once-weekly Cunard Eagle mid-Atlantic 707 service terminating in Jamaica has now been absorbed into the existing BOAC schedules to Jamaica via New York. The Cunard Eagle Viscount services between Nassau and Miami continue to be oper ated with Cunard Eagle Viscounts and Cunard Eagle flight numbers to the account of BOAC-Cunard, but under the aegis of Bahamas Airways, the BOAC subsidiary which will become a subsidiary of BOAC-Cunard eventually. When all these revised operations have settled down, the US legal formalities connected with the implementation of BOAC-Cunard will then be dealt with. Meanwhile the main object of the exercise— a joint BOAC and Cunard sales effort—has been implemented in full. A new name in British air transport, British United (CI) Airways Ltd, follows the merger of Jersey Airlines and the Silver City northern division. The extensive route network, about which a note appears on this page, is indicated in this map BRITISH UNITED (CI) AIRWAYS WHEN British United Airways absorbed Jersey Airlines and Silver City earlier this year, they assumed control of one of the most extensive networks of UK domestic routes ever operated by one airline. A map showing this network during last summer's oper ations is reproduced on this page. Three additional routes are planned for next summer, subject of course to Air Transport Licensing Board permission. These are: Leeds-Amsterdam, London (Gatwick) - Blackpool, and Coventry-Dublin. From November 1, all future British Isles operations of the Jersey Airlines and Silver City will be combined under the name of British United (CI) Airways. The main base of this new BUA division will be in Jersey under the managing directorship of Mr M. L. Thomas, founder of Jersey Airlines. Mr R. V. Baker, formerly a director of Silver City, will be responsible for the northern services. The combined BUA (CI) fleet will comprise four Dart Heralds (plus two more on order), 14 DC-3s and two Herons for Alderney services. Based on the 1961-62 traffic figures, BUA (CI) will now replace BKS as the independent airline with the most scheduled domestic Left, Mr Trevor Glover of BOAC has been appointed to succeed Mr Derek Glover (no relation) as manager, southern routes. (Mr Derek Glover was recently appointed financial comptroller of BOAC in succession to Mr K. W. Bevan, who retired on October I.) Right, Mr Francis J. Brew has been appointed Gibraltar Airways' sales manager in the United Kingdom. He is based at Dorland House, Lower Regent Street, London SW/
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