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FLIGHT International, 7 February 1963 203 ; juld create monopolies and thereby restrain competition or jeopardize another airline. The CAB has always held monopoly to mean service for which a single airline is certificated. The American-Eastern merger would .••eate no such monopolies in any significant markets. However, the Examiner employed anti-trust standards used in unregulated industries, where a predominant market share can sometimes be used to control prices or exclude competition. In the airline industry, such power is held entirely by the CAB. BEA V JERSEY AIRLINES \PPEALING to the Minister of Aviation against the ATLB's decision to allow Jersey Airlines to cancel stops at Bournemouth on Manchester - Channel Islands services, BEA said at a hearing before Sir Ralph Hone on January 31 that the Board had not con sidered the adverse effect on BEA's revenue. Mr Henry Marking, for BEA, alleged that Jersey Airlines published timetables which indicated direct services between Manchester and the Channel Islands, and it was not shown in many instances that the aircraft would call at Bournemouth. By their decision, Mr Marking de clared, the Board had given a stamp of approval to a deception of the public, and he could not believe that the Minister would wish to approve this. Mr J. R. Bayley, for Jersey Airlines, said that the evidence be fore the ATLB had shown the need for a variation of their licence and a need for more direct services between Manchester and the Channel Islands. On about 60 per cent of flights routed through Bournemouth, no people embarked or disembarked at the airport. The flights through Bournemouth were therefore unnecessary, and Jersey-bound passengers were merely delayed. Jersey Airlines' small-scale operation could hardly divert traffic from BEA. So far as the timetables were concerned, it was not always possible to decide which flights should go via Bournemouth. The commissioner will report his recommendations to the Mini ster in due course. BOAC-CUNARD AND THE ATLB APPLICATIONS to the ATLB for licences in the name of BOAC- Cunard have now been published in the Board's Notices (January 30 issue). The applications appear to cover the whole of the BOAC-Cunard network, with a few exceptions. For example, no licence for BOAC-Cunard to operate to Miami from London is applied for. It is presumed that this will be done at a later stage. BOAC-Cunard are not applying for an E licence for the operation of charter services; BOAC are seeking such a licence on behalf of BOAC-Cunard. As expected, these applications—like those to the CAB (see page 181)—are for completely fresh licences in the name of BOAC- Cunard, not applications for the transfer of existing licences held by BOAC, Cunard Eagle and Bahamas Airways. Seen in flight is the F.A.I. Guarani I light transport, built by the Argentine National Directorate of Aeronautical Manufacture and Research at Cordoba. On the right, approaching completion, is the Guarani II, with redesigned rear fuselage and swept fin and rudder. Both are powered with Turbomeca Bastans No Gatwick Jets No jets are to be allowed to use London Gat- wick on a scheduled or charter basis this year. United DC-8 Near-miss A United Air Lines' DC-8 en route from Seattle to Los Angeles had to take evasive action on January 25 to avoid a collision with an unidentified aircraft. A woman passenger suffered a broken leg. BOAC v. El Al According to a report in The Times, negotiations in Tel Aviv between Israel and British civil aviation authorities have broken down. It is said that BOAC have asked that El Al should reduce their three London -New York flights a week to two. American and the Douglas 2086 A report in Interavia that American Airlines had placed a letter of intent for 25 Douglas 2086s, and that the airline had given Douglas 30 days in which to make a decision on production, was subsequently officially denied by Douglas Aircraft. Continental Viscount Crash A Viscount 812 of Continental Air Lines hit a 12-ft high bunker and river dyke in a landing accident at Kansas City Airport on January 29. All nine occupants, four crew and five passengers, were killed. The aircraft was on a flight from Midland via Oklahoma and Tulsa. British United DC-3 Accident British United's DC-3 G-AMJU overshot the runway at Blackpool Airport on January 25 on a scheduled flight from Dusseldorf via Amsterdam and New castle. None of the occupants, two crew and six passengers, was seriously injured. The port wing was slightly damaged. A BUA spokesman said the aircraft encountered an unexpected fog patch on landing. BEA and Mr Toothill Mr J. N. Toothill, chairman of the Scottish Advisory Committee for Civil Aviation, has stated his committee's preference for a subsidy for BEA's Highlands and Islands services. He feels that, with a subsidy, Scotland would know more precisely where it stood, and "we could see then what the profits are on the other routes." The committee could not, he said, agree to the current proposal for large fare increases. Sir Basil and BOAC Staff Sir Basil Smallpeice, BOAC's manag ing director, says in BOAC News that he feels "considerably inhi bited" about continuing to write in the BOAC staff paper. "So much of what I would wish to write about," he says, "is the sort of thing Mr Corbett and the Minister will be considering, and it would be wrong to embarrass them by expressing our views in public. Until all this is over therefore I will be writing much less frequently." Sir Basil reveals that Mr Corbett (the accountant examining the corporation's finances on behalf of the Minister) has "sub contracted certain specialist aspects of his task to management consultants."
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