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nternational, 30 January 1964 171 (T) Straight and Level QANTAS say that the Americans willgive them back their deposit onUS supersonic airliners if they decide not to have them before November next year. They apparently want refundable- deposit terms for the Concorde. The Concorde is a firm project, and if airlines want a firm place in the delivery queue they can't really expect to obtain it for nothing. Not unless they're BOAC and Air France, anyway. - MAN FOUND IN AIRLINER CABIN POLICE CALLED :. A man was found sitting in a British State Airways Mammoth Super Gargantua Mach 4.5 supersonic airliner which landed at London Airport from New York yesterday. The air hostess alerted the captain, who informed the control tower by VHF radio and asked for police assistance. Questioned by plain clothes men, the man, a Mr Jones of Chorleywood, said: "I am a fare-paying passenger." He was taken to Hounslow police station. Asked to comment, Sir Jocelyn Flame- thrower, managing director of British State Airways, twitched his monocle angrily and said: "Passengers! Passengers! My dear fellow, are you seriously suggesting that we should carry every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to fly supersonic? Don't you realize that passengers are relics of the outmoded commercialism of the nineteen- sixties and that the sole function of modern air transport is to provide prestige and employment?" News flash IATA delegates at Tierra del Fuego broke up after a three-year meeting which failed to agree on Pan American's revolutionary new supersonic thrift fare of £899 19s single between Lonnon and New York (off-season, off-peak, lOmin validity and subject to Government approval). Are you all right?—No 33 It could only happen in America I a look at areas of the world I where we are not operating, to "i see if we are missing anything." Sir Giles GUthrie has been losing money heavily in recent years. He said that after the wor.h •:..-.;: . From "The Japan Times," January 4 • BOAC are reported to have said that they have lost £80m to SAS and KLM because of these airlines' "fifth freedom" rights at Prestwick. In other words SAS and KLM have picked up revenue in the form of Scots flying to the USA exactly equivalent to BOAC's deficit. It seems to me an awful lot of business missed. So the Ministry of Aviation's reaction is ik: to threaten to suspend SAS's fifth-freedom rights at Prestwick when these expire on March 31. It is not quite clear who are more furious, the Scots or the Scandinavians. The ambassadors of Norway, Sweden and Denmark have delivered an acid note to HMG, while a prominent Glasgow citizen, Council E. Lapham, says: "The Govern- ment doesn't care a toot about Prestwick." The next thing we know the Scandi- navians will be clobbering BEA. Shouldn't the Ministry be pursuing a policy of liberalism instead of restrictionism which leads only to counter-restrictionism? Footnote Caledonian Airways, which styles itself "The Scottish International Airline," will be operating 116 DC-7C charter flights—carrying 6,000 passengers— this summer between the UK and USA/ Canada, 75 of them into or out of Prestwick. That's the way to sell. • "BOAC couldn't care less about the VC10, old boy." Down the throat of anyone who still thinks that I shall person- ally stuff a copy of BOAC's new VC10 sales brochure. It is quite the most stylish and effective piece of airline promotion to come my way. • The year 1963 was the first in which British air transport had a perfect passen- ger safety record. Some of the credit for this is due to the MoA for its ceaseless efforts to improve the safety environment. It seems an oppor- tunity missed for some POSITIVE p.r. by the Ministry. It was a remarkable achieve- ment, and would have made headlines. • Colleague's small son: "You fly in that rocket and you'd be dead for the rest of your life." ROGER BACON
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