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FLIGHT International, 22 August 1963 275 into line with the State corporations on pay settlements. Mr Laker says: "From time to time we have been trying to tell our staff that the unions' policy and also that of BOAC and BEA would result in the destruction of any form of independent air transport, and in particular of our own company. There is no doubt that together, if we were not strong in fighting this threat, they would succeed." Mr Harold Bamberg, chairman of Cunard Eagle, says: "This dispute is quite unnecessary. After all, we in the industry should do the best we can for the industry, and British aviation has a long way to go in the operating sense. I am quite satisfied that we are completely justified in our point of view. We cannot be tied to the corporations' position. We are good employers and have no quarrel with the unions. We have never had a strike and our per sonnel at all levels would not go on strike. We are struggling for survival against the background of two giant nationalized under takings who are not always right: certainly in the case of BOAC the history of their labour relations is appalling. I am quite sure that the company has the goodwill of its employees in this matter and we are all of one mind that it is ridiculous for issues of this kind to be influenced by political or other dogma." Mr Laker adds that BUA would be happy to re-open negotiations with the trade union side of the NJC at any time. Alternatively, his company is prepared to have the matter referred to arbitration by the Ministry of Labour—which the union side has refused to agree to. As this issue went to press it was still not clear whether the seven independents are, or are not, members of the NJC. AID FOR NEW BRITISH AIRLINERS HITHERTO it has not been the policy of the Ministry of Aviation to publish the individual subsidies granted for the development of new British civil transport aircraft. This policy is now apparently changed, because on August 2 in a written answer in the House of Commons, the Minister of Aviation, Mr Julian Amery, listed the following Government commitments in respect of the Trident, VC10, One-Eleven, Concorde, Spey and Olympus, Herald and Argosy. Project Trident Mk 1* VCIOand Super VCIO BAC One-Eleven Spey 1 Concorde and Olympus 393| Total Government Commitment £m 5.0 10.25 9.75 3.0 5.3 * Negotiations in progress for Tridents IE and I F development subsidies, f Interim contracts. In addition the Minister quotes for the first time the amounts given to BEA to assist the corporation in the operational develop ment of the Herald and Argosy. These subsidies are, respectively, £l.llm and £0.153m. This assistance to BEA, it appears, provides the precedent for an operational development subsidy to BOAC in respect of the VC10. The precise amount of this has, it is understood, been the subject of recent negotiations between BOAC and the Ministry, and will probably be revealed when the corporation's annual report is published in a few weeks' time. BEA's Dart 7 Life Up Rolls-Royce report that Dart 7s in service with BEA have been approved for an overhaul life of 3,500hr. Mr Ansett Visits Douglas Mr R. M. Ansett, chairman of Ansett- ANA, and his general manager, Mr Frank Pascoe, recently visited Douglas Aircraft for discussions on the DC-9. KLM DC-8 Accident Inquiry Defective instrument readings not noticed in time by the crew may have caused the crash of the KLM DC-8 off Lisbon on May 30,1961, states the Dutch inquiry. fiEA Aberdeen - London A daily 66-passenger Viscount 800 service between Aberdeen and London will start on November 1 Vn BEA apP,ication to tne ATLB is approved. Mr Anthony H. Milward, BEA's chief executive, says that Edinburgh - London is now expanding so much that the route should no longer be shared with Aberdeen. Air-India Say Moscow Pays Mr B. R. Patel, general manager of Air-India, is reported by Interavia as having said that Air-India's Moscow - New Delhi service "is the best paying route in Air- India's network" and is to be extended from April to London. Thai 748 Contract Signed The Avro Whitworth division of Hawker Siddeley announce that Thai Airways' order for three Avro 748 Series 2s was the subject of a firm contract, signed in Hong Kong, on July 29. The three aircraft will be delivered to Thailand in the summer of 1964 for use on domestic operations. Slattery on Corbett Sir Matthew Slattery, chairman of BOAC, is reported by Travel Trade Gazette as saying: "I have not read the Corbett report myself. However, Mr Corbett is an honest man and the report will only contain the things I have been saying for some time." Sir Matthew also stated that he was against any merger with BEA. Air Inter Viscount Crash On August 12 an Air Inter Viscount flying from Lille to Lyons crashed on a farmhouse after hitting a pylon during a thunderstorm about 15 miles north of Lyons. The sole survivor among the 16 occupants was a five-year-old girl whose condition was described as serious. A man in the farmhouse was also killed. Lufthansa's Short-haul Jet Requirement According to the chief technical executive of Lufthansa, Herr Gerhard Hoeltje, during a recent visit to Boeing, Lufthansa has an initial short-haul jet requirement of from 12 to 15 aircraft of the BAC One-Eleven or Douglas DC-9 type, and two or three more if the type selected is the Fokker F.28. According to Aviation Daily Lufthansa expects to make a decision by the end of the year, and is also contemplating the purchase of a further four or five Boeing 727s and a further Boeing 707-320B. YS-11 Sales Drive Japan's twin Dart airliner, the YS-11, is to be the subject of a sales drive by a team comprising representatives of Japanese trading firms and the Namco consortium of manufac turers which is building the aircraft. The team is expected to visit Australia and New Zealand, as well as south-east Asian countries, later this year. According to The Financial Times' Tokyo corres pondent, it is estimated that 150 YS-lls will have to be sold to break even and that the domestic market is not expected to take more than 80 aircraft. According to the same source a major problem may be the cost of the aircraft, said to be "around £420,000." On August 12 at the Kuwait Embassy in London Mr Abdussalam Shuaib, chairman of Kuwait Airways, signed a contract with Hawker Siddeley Aviation for a second Comet 4C. Seen with him at the ceremony are: right to left, Mr Faysal A. Shuaib, Kuwait Commercial Attache; H.E. the Ambassador of Kuwait Khalid M. jaffar; and Mr A. S. Wheate, director of Hawker Siddeley Aviation's de Havilland Division
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