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FLIGHT International, 2 July 1964 9 LORD DOUGLAS FOR HORIZON LORD DOUGLAS of Kirtleside, who retired as BEA chairman on March 31, has been elected chairman of Horizon Holidays Ltd. Horizon specialize in inclusive tours and are the biggest single users of British United Airways. They also use BEA, BKS, Danair and UTA. Lord Douglas says: "I regard inclusive tours as the particular province of the independent air companies who should concentrate on this work rather than compete against nationalized airlines on scheduled services." Mr V. G. Raitz, Horizon's former chairman and who now be- comes deputy chairman, comments: "We are delighted . . . and flattered . . . Lord Douglas will play a leading part in determining policy, especially with regard to our flying programme." An-24 FOR AIR CEYLON? AIR CEYLON, whose order for an HS.748 is the subject of a Ceylon Government committee of inquiry, is being offered an An-24 by the Russians at a cost said to be 20-25 per cent cheaper than the Fokker Friendship, a renewed offer of which is being made at £362,000. Mr Steve Claessens, Fokker's far eastern representative, has written to the Ceylon Minister of Communications to say that his company is "seriously perturbed about the various allegations made to pressurize the sale and mislead the committee appointed by the Minister for the selection of an aircraft for Air Ceylon." Meanwhile the Airline Pilots Association of Ceylon has also written to the same Minister saying that it is greatly perturbed at the allegations of the Fokker representative that the Air Ceylon management is guilty of the suppression of a tender. Boeing 727 Deliveries now approach 50 aircraft to six customers. Total 727 sales now amount to 1-77 to 13 airlines. Glasgow Airport Director Mr Ronald A. Read, deputy comman- dant at Jersey airport, has been recommended for appointment as director of Glasgow's new municipal airport at Abbotsinch. Caravelles' Million Hours The 160 Caravelles flying all over the world with 24 operators in 22 countries have now surpassed one million flying hours in regular service. The Caravelle first went into service in the spring of 1959 with Air France. Aer Lingus's Atlantic Services earned £5.85m in 1963-64, compared with £1.6m in 1959-60. The new Boeing 7O7-32OC which went into service on June 22 will carry an extra 15,000 passengers on North Atlantic routes. About 83,500 passengers were carried last year. Production milestone for the Douglas DC-9 was passed at the Douglas Long Beach plant recently when the top and bottom halves of the No ( nose section were joined. Note the similarity to the DCS nose sections down the line. Roll-out of the DC-9, say Douglas, is scheduled for February and the company states that the first flight will take place in March. Firm or provisional orders for 78 DC-9s have now been placed by Delta, IBonanza, Air Canada, Swissair, Ansett-ANA and TWA ; Boeing's 727 demonstrator has returned from its 14,000 mile tour said to be "trouble free"—of the USA and Latin America. The trip lasted 19 days and involved over 61 hr of flying. The aircraft was the first jet ever to visit La Paz, Bolivia, the highest commercial airfield in the world. Demonstration take-offs at a weight of 128,9001b were made by a Boeing test pilot, including one with an engine cut at Vt Oxford Air Training School is training 27 air traffic control officer cadets to Private Pilot's Licence standard for the Ministry of Aviation. This forms part of the cadets' four-year course, and represents the third year in succession in which the Ministry has sent such cadets to Oxford. BALPA Strike Off The strike of 450 independent pilots called by BALPA, which was due to begin on June 30, was called off. The dispute, which centres on a claim for pay equal to that of corpor- ation pilots doing similar work, has been referred by the Minister of Aviation to the Industrial Court for arbitration. Mr Stevenson Pugh, defence correspondent of the Daily Mail and former air correspondent, has been appointed assistant to Mr Eric Rylands, managing director of Skyways Coach Air Ltd. He joins the company on August 1. Mr Angus McPherson becomes defence correspondent as well as air correspondent of the Daily Mail. By Air to the Isle of Skye Sir James Denby Roberts of Strathallan Castle, Perthshire, is to provide the Isle of Skye with its first air service since before the war. His four-passenger Helio Courier made its first landing on the proposed air strip, a farm at Skeabost Bridge, four miles from Portree, last month. The pilot was Sqn Ldr Peter Tunstall, who says that charter services will be operated soon. BOAC and Prestwick Reports that passengers for transatlantic flights from Prestwick cannot get seats are being investigated by the Prestwick airport development association, which is asking for information from any travellers who have been unable to get transatlantic bookings out of Prestwick. Following the cut of three weekly SAS flights, BOAC, who pledged to take up any slack, are operating a daily service to America through Prestwick and will operate another next month through Scotland to the Caribbean. Mr I. Vertis, head of a Glasgow firm who has just returned from a trade mission to Sweden, says: "Because of Swedish resentment, quite a number of businessmen have been put off trading with us. During my stay in Sweden I found that the people were quite bitter about what has happened." He said that Lord Polwarth, chairman of the Scottish council for development and industry, had returned home "extremely conscious of the depth of Swedish opinion over the cutting of SAS flights through Prestwick."
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