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1963 - 2026.PDF
828 AIR COMMERCE CALEDONIAN EXPANSION — A TWENTY-FIVE per cent shareholding in the Scottish indepen dent Caledonian Airways has been taken up in the form of new shares by the Scottish shipowners The Donaldson Line. This company has a fleet of eight ships operating mainly on freighter work across the North and South Atlantic. The deal suggests an expansion of Caledonian's freighting activities, and it also of course increases Caledonian's resources. Control remains in the hands of Caledonian's management. Speculation about the ATLB's reasons for recently deferring a number of Caledonian's inclusive tour applications for next summer is thus ended. During the recent summer season Caledonian have been oper ating a fleet of four DC-7Cs. Next season these aircraft will be augmented by two DC-6Bs acquired from Sabena for use mainly on European inclusive-tour work to which this type is more suited than the DC-7C. There seems little doubt now that the ATLB will grant the IT applications so far deferred, following the increase in Caledonian's resources. So far as the company's transatlantic programme is concerned, 75 charters are planned of which 47 have so far been booked. Of these about 25 are "Scottish affinity" groups and as already reported in these pages Caledonian will be concentrating much of their transatlantic work on Prestwick next year rather than on Gatwick. A team of Caledonian salesmen in the States recently has been promoting, apparently with some success, the idea of golfing holi days in Scotland. This is an example of the sort of business that Caledonian are increasingly likely to go after, making the most of the "ethnic affinity" that exists between Scottish Americans and Scotland. —AND MARTIN'S EXPANSION MARTIN'S Air Charter, the Dutch independent, has also increased its share capital by joining forces with three shipping companies, all Dutch: The Holland-America Line, The Royal Rotterdam Lloyd, and Netherland Steamship Co. An agreement has been negotiated with KLM about the expan sion of tourist work next summer, and a DC-7C is to be transferred by KLM to Martin's in the spring. A number of KLM pilots and ground staff may also be transferred to Martin's. This will help to ease KLM's pilot redundancy problems. A second DC-7C may also be operated by Martin's. According to a report from Amsterdam "both airlines will jointly develop a great activity in the Dutch IT market." By going into partnership with an independent, the Dutch national airline seems to be following the trend, much apparent in recent years, whereby major IATA carriers retain their interest in national charter traffic by going into partnership with non-IATA charter companies while at the same time easing their fleet surplus and staff redundancy problems. FLIGHT International, 21 November 1963 More DC-8s for SAS SAS have ordered two more DC-8-50s for delivery in the spring of 1965 to increase their fleet of these aircraft to nine. The aircraft will have the new long duct engine pod. KLM Struggle for Power? KLM unions have sent a message to the Netherlands Minister of Transport claiming that "a struggle for power" is going on among KLM's four directors, adding thai they have lost confidence in the management. JAL v. PIA The Japanese Government has refused PIA landing rights at Tokyo for onward flights via points in China. Pakistan's request was rejected because of "political implications," according to a joint announcement in Tokyo. PIA intend to launch their service to Canton and Shanghai "early next year" as scheduled. Finnair DC-3 Crash A Finnair DC-3 on a flight from Helsinki to Mariehamn via Turku crashed while approaching Mariehamn in what are reported to have been foggy conditions. Of the 25 people on board only three, a stewardess and two passengers, survived, though with serious injuries. Five Years of Boeing Jets Since first entering service in October 1958 Boeing jet airliners, of which more than 340 are now in service, are estimated to have flown more than 2.6m hours and to have carried more than 45m passengers. A total of 520 707s, 720s and 727s are on order. DC-8 Sheds Pod An Eastern Air Lines DC-8 flying from New- York to Mexico City on November 10 lost No 3 engine when, according to reports, the aircraft hit turbulence at 20,000ft. Seventeen passengers, one with a broken back, were taken to hospital after an emergency landing, following 50min spent dumping fuel, at Barksdale US Air Force base near Shreveport. There were 117 passengers and a crew of seven on board. BEA Order US Computer A £2£m order for an automatic reservations system was signed by Lord Douglas of BEA with the Univac computer division of Remington Rand on November 14. Installed in BEA's new west London terminal, the system is based on two Univac 490 computers, American designed and built, and will start to come into operation in January 1965. British Sperry will supply 200 associated interrogator sets for BEA's reservations offices and agents. Aer Lingus Carvair Repeat Order Aer Lingus announce the purchase of a third ATL-98 Carvair at a cost of about £270,000 for delivery in April 1964. An Aer Lingus statement said: "Not unnaturally the integration of a new aircraft type into our fleet led to some initial teething troubles but ... the aircraft are now operating most satisfactorily and are popular with both passengers and crews." This third aircraft will enable Aer Lingus "to provide a better element of reserve coverage for next season's service.' Since May Aer Lingus car-ferry services from Dublin to Liverpool, Bristol and Cherbourg (the latter since June) and from Bristol to Cork have carried more than 4,100 cars and 11,000 passengers, car target being exceeded by more than 300. One of Caledonian's DC-7Cs in transit at Santa Cruz, Bombay, during a recent charter to Hong Kong. A news item about the Scottish independent appears on this page "Flight International" photograph Jw 1 »!• il ^i * j I * *%*^ JS0-'" " ' /.JWW' V
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