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1963 - 2153.PDF
Five BAC One-Elevens on the production line at BAC Hum, four for British United and one for Braniff. First flight of the second aircraft is expected to take place in the next few days AIR COM MERGE . . . No 54, PAA; No 55 TWA; No 56, Northwest; No 57, JAL; No 58, PAA; Nos 59 and 60, unassigned; No 61, PAA; Nos 62 and 63, unassigned; No 64, PAA; Nos65and66, unassigned; No 67, PAA; Nos 68 and 69, unassigned; No 70, PAA. CAR-FERRY FARES UP ALTHOUGH vehicle-ferry fares are lower today than they were in 1957—"and this is so without using any comic calculations"— increases next year are now inevitable, Mr Freddie Laker, BUA's managing director, told a news conference in London on December 3. "I thought we would be able to hold fares this year," he said, "but with increasing costs it has proved quite impossible." BUA's engineering staff had, he said, recently had an increase of 5 per cent; Bristol Freighter pilots were earning 30 per cent more now than they were six years ago and a further claim for a 10 per cent increase had been put in; and higher UK landing fees were due in April. The increases, which were foreshadowed in these pages last June, are not in fact as great as those introduced by BUAF last summer (January 3, page 9), being 7 per cent on a typical Lydd - Le Touquet fare to 8 per cent on the long-haul Southend - Geneva Carvair service. Traffic results for the recent summer season show sub stantial increases in carryings on the long-range Carvair routes, and a slight decline on the shorter routes due largely, say BUAF, to the poor summer. Asked about the future of the short routes Mr Laker said: "We don't know for how long we're going to be in the short-distance routes, but we will be able to carry cars as cheaply, or cheaper than, the tunnel taking all costs into consideration." Results for 1963 compared with 1962 were as follows:— Long-range routes Belgian and Dutch routes French and Channel Isle routes Totals CARS 1943' 6,672 22,195 100,045 128.912 1962 4,074 24,706 109.214 137.994 PASSENGERS 1963* 17,694 132,786 284,010 434.490 1962 10,922 102,687 303,659 417.268 FREIGHT (tons) 1963* 560 12,303 13,289 26.152 1962 184 9,601 12,779 22.564 * 1963 December estimated Eagle Britannia Freighters British Eagle have started work on the conversion of two of their Britannias to the freighter rdle, primarily for Government contract flying between the UK and Australia. Initially enlarged doors are being incorporated, at a cost of about £70,000 per aircraft. The work is being done at the British Eagle engineering base at Heathrow. CAA's Future After the break-up of the Central African Feder ation the three Governments of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland are to set up a joint civil aviation authority, according to unconfirmed reports from Salisbury. CAA will continue under joint ownership and control with subsidiaries in each territory having what is termed "a substantial degree of autonomv." According to reports the Northern Rhodesian airline will be called Zambia Airways and that of Nyasaland Malawi Airways. The three territories will be regarded as one for the purpose of traffic rights, power in this respect being entrusted to the high authority. Kitty Hawk Airport Next Tuesday, December 17, the 60th anniversary of the Wright Brothers' first flight, Gen Eisenhower is due to name a new airport at Kitty Hawk, N. Carolina, First Flight Airport. Longer Lydd To make Lydd Airport suitable for long-haul BUAF Carvair operations the runway there is being lengthened from 4,050ft to 5,000ft in time for next summer season at a cost, including radar and lighting, of about £100,000. TCA DC-8 Accidents It is confirmed that both of the TCA DC-8s which suffered accidents last month were DC-8Fs. An airline spokesman in London has said that there is no reason to link this with the cause of the two accidents. The answer to questions in the UK Press is that both aircraft were fuelled with JP.4. Caravelle Production According to unconfirmed reports from Paris the French Government has decided to approve the con struction of 25 more Caravelles over and above the original plan for 200 aircraft. Orders to date amount to more than 170 (with 20 more provisionally ordered), of which more than 150 have been delivered. Fokker Denial A spokesman for the Fokker Company has denied that the company had anything to do with the misquoting of a report in the London Daily Telegraph, in which words were allegedly changed to indicate that the Friendship was superior in certain respects to the Hawker Siddeley 748. The matter is to be the subject of a Fokker investigation and the results will be made public. Philadelphia Tragedy A PAA Boeing 707 crashed near Phila delphia on the night of December 8, killing all 72 passengers and eight crew on board. The aircraft was in the Philadelphia holding pattern at 5,000ft having left Baltimore en route on a scheduled service from Puerto Rico when, eyewitnesses stated, it broke up in the air. It was PAA's first fatal accident of any kind since jet operations began in October 1958. Tees for Three BKS have applied to the ATLB for a London - Middlesbrough service in addition to BEA and British Eagle (see last week's issue). The BKS and British Eagle applications appear in last week's ATLB Licensing Notice. BKS are also applying to link Middlesbrough (Middleton-St-George) with Newcastle, Leeds/Bradford, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Lille, Dusseldorf and Belfast. Britannias are among the aircraft specified. BUA's Top People In a major commercial management reorganiz ation of BUA and BUAF Mr D. A. Whybrow becomes chief commercial executive of BUA as well as commercial director ot BUAF. Mr George Carroll becomes general commercial manager with Mr A. M. Blakemore as his deputy. Other appointments arc. tariffs manager, Mr D. Harwood; charter manager, Mr G. Forester; inclusive tours manager, Mr S. Perren; economic planning manager, Mr A. T. Pugh; fleet planning manager, Mr D. M. Mansfield; commercial manager rail/air, Mr G. P. Parselle; manager MF0 division, Mr E. Goff. Eagle's Big Appeal against the refusal of the ATLB to award increases in domestic frequencies will open at 47 Parliament Street, London SW1, on December 16 at 10.30 a.m. The commissioner appointed by the Minister is Sir Arthur Hutchinson. Another appellant who will be appearing is Starways, who are objecting to the ATLB's award of London - Liverpool - Isle of Man service* to Cambrian Airways. For the first time a member of the public will be appearing at an appeal; Mr A. J. Lucking, who app^re(1 at the original hearings in the summer, becomes a party to the appeal. The case is expected to go on for at least four days
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