FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1964
1964 - 1355.PDF
750 Inter. "otim 1944 BOACs new Golden Speedbird look first appeared on this Boeing 707, photographed soon after its roll-out from the BOAC hangars at London Heathrow. This scheme is being applied to VCIOs as well as 7O7s and with it Sir Giles Guthrie gives not only BOAC sales and staff a boost but simplifies the expensive and sometimes touchy problem of chartered aircraft identification. Sir Giles Guthrie's message to staff on the eve of the VCIO's inaugural service, April 29, appears on page 760 AIR COMMERCE... NEARLY ONE A MINUTE AT CHICAGO BUSIEST airport in the United States, and hence in the world, was again Chicago O'Hare in 1963. There were 427,000 movements, which is coming up close to an average of one aircraft movement every minute of the day and night throughout the year. London Heathrow's "standard busy rate," which is the highest rate that the airport can accept continuously, assuming the use of parallel runways, will be slightly more than one aircraft per minute, or a fraction higher for short periods. No figures are available for Chicago O'Hare's "standard busy rate." The top ten American airports are as follows:— Rank Movements Chicago O'Hare 1 426,994 Los Angeles 2 358,749 Long Beach 3 351,199 Van Nuys 4 341,684 John F. Kennedy Intl 5 339,424 Washington 6 294,181 Phoenix 7 288,207 Miami 8 281,683 Santa Monica 9 261,235 Honolulu 10 258,869 The comparative figures for London Heathrow and Manchester, Britain's second busiest airport, are 168,538 and 41,748. Britain's top ten airports in 1963 were listed on page 611 of the April 16 issue. SAS CUT SCOTTISH "EXCHANGE" TRAFFIC SAS are reducing by one quarter their third- and fourth-freedom services between Scotland and Scandinavia during the coming summer. In the peak holiday months a daily Convair return Metropolitan service will still be operated, but 30 of 120 scheduled summer return flights have been cancelled. The airline had intended to operate three weekly return flights between Prestwick, Stavanger and Bergen from May 15 and June 16 and from mid-September to the end of October. Mr John Young, S AS's station manager at Prestwick, says: "Our summer programme was dictated primarily by the demand of transatlantic passengers stopping in Scotland. The British Government reduction of our transatlantic route, the number of flights having been cut from seven a week each way to four this summer, has severely affected this demand for seats on the short-haul services." INNAGE AND OUTAGE, BUT NO GUFF TWO months ago the FAA announced that it was revising its procedures for issuing Notams in an effort to eliminate much of the useless "guff" which clutters up operations departments all over the world (e.g., "work in progress 20yd north of block 69 and trenching in progress 100ft east of threshold of R/W 27" to quote from recent Ministry of Aviation Notam). As from March 15 the FAA was issuing Notams "only on items which have direct operational significance such as inoperative navigation aids, unscheduled airport or runway closings, or new or rescheduled IFR procedures. Material now coming over the teleprinters has indeed been considerably pruned and streamlined, so that it now includes only information which would affect safety. The only brickbat for this excellent American Notam service is the brutal use of the English language. When a VOR goes unserviceable, for instance, this is termed an "outage," and when it is returned to normal service it is an "innage." But at least there is no guffage. PIA TO MOSCOW AND SHANGHAI NEXT Sunday, May 10, Pakistan International plans to inaugurate its new weekly Karachi - London service via Kabul, Moscow and Frankfurt, even though at the time of writing a British Govern- ment decision was still awaited on the traffic-rights negotiations held in London on April 21 between Air Cdre Nur Khan and the Minister of Aviation. In addition to applying for end-to-end traffic rights PIA want fifth-freedom traffic between London and Moscow. After his London talks Air Cdre Nur Khan said that agreement was "in sight." A Ministry of Aviation spokesman would not give any hint at all last week of the British position, saying only that "an understanding has been reached." The inaugural PIA from Karachi and Dacca to Canton and Shanghai was due to take place on April 29 and, if the Moscow route is opened as planned, PIA for some time at least will be in the very strong position of having easily the fastest service of any airline operating between Europe and the Orient. Asked when PIA planned to reopen their New York service, Air Cdre Nur Khan told Flight International last week that the opportunity for expan- sion between Europe and Far East were so great that PIA would probably concentrate their efforts in that area for some time to come. PLAIN WORDS FROM SWISSAIR IN his address to shareholders, the full text of which has just been released, Dr W. Berchtold, Swissair's president, is as outspoken as always. In 1963, as in 1962, the Swissair airline made a profit and this relatively small national airline's president says there are "no sound economic reasons" for operating at the Swiss taxpayer's expense, and Swissair is determined to adhere to this principle. But Dr Berchtold is not among those airline chiefs who consider that the fare-cutting problem is a thing of the past. There are, he says, "state airlines which flout tariff regulations with every form of deceit, dishonesty and bad faith in order to steal a march on competitors." This he describes as "a flagrant disregard of honour and good faith." Swissair, he says, feels "no cause for serious disquiet" at the attitude of the CAB over reduced fares. This must be the first time that an airline has publicly, if only faintly, praised the CAB for the part it played in whar Dr Berchtold described as the "drastic' North Atlantic fare reductions, which according to Swissair's estimates average 15 per cent. "Traffic will have to increase by at least 20 per cent to compensate for loss of revenue and to cover the additional costs, not to mention continuing price increases all round" Dr Berchtold notes. Swissair puts on record the fact that "American competitors once
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
