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r International, 9 July 1964 |R COMMERCE . . . you think that the supersonic transport will have to have a wcharge? Ve are working on this. It is not an immediate problem. A rcharge is going to be essential if the supersonic transport is going be an economic instrument. Contradicting that, it is going to be very difficult decision for airline management when the time mes. But as I project the future, the bulk of the traffic growth is >ing to be of the tourist and personal-travel kind, and both oeing and Douglas are in the process of preparing plans for lugging' their aeroplanes—extending the fuselage to accommodate ore seats. Boeing, I believe, are proposing a 23ft plug and, in rms of today's dollar, by 1970 my guess is that it will be possible, je to reduced depreciation costs and improvements in powerplant verhaul life, to fly the London - New York round trip for $200 in day's dollars." )o you think that IATA's stipulation that the supersonic transport's perating cost must not be greater than that of contemporary subsonic m will be met ? I don't think the SST will make it. My guess is that many people, fter the first blush, will prefer to pay $100 less and have three more ours in an aeroplane so that they can spend more money touring he English countryside or buying more Wedgewood. And I think hat the smaller scheduled airlines are going to make life difficult or the big SST operators. Swissair and KLM, for example, are fficient operators and as their efficiency of operation increases, it eems to me that they may well say 'we are not going to spend all his money on a fleet of SSTs, we are going to stay out of the SST msiness as long as we can and get the bulk of the traffic'" ~)o you think we shall see a repetition of the subsonic jet revolution, t'hen the I ATA airlines financed their charter competitors by enabling hem to buy cheap surplus aircraft, which next time will be subsonic ets? I don't think it is going to be quite the same as when the supple- nentals got their DC-6s and DC-7s from scheduled airlines. By he time the SST comes these operators will have jets anyway. I ;et the impression that these days you can buy a jet by putting iretty well nothing down." i1 it the CAB's policy to encourage charter operations ? 'Charters have not threatened scheduled services, the growth of vhich has been healthy. The charter operators say that among >ther things they generate business for the scheduled carriers. They ly people who have never flown before, and I think that a lot of heir business is completely new traffic." ire you opposed to inclusive tours on the Atlantic route ? 'We are in a state of transition here. There is some question about iur legal authority to approve inclusive tours on charters, although ve can approve ITs on scheduled services today. As a generality nost scheduled operators are not very interested, though there are 43 some who are. As far as the supplemental are concerned, there is the question of our legal authority." Will you approve Caledonian's application to you to operate ITs on a scheduled basis ? "We haven't given it any thought yet, and we are not aware that their application has been approved by the ATLB. In general I would say that charters are definitely a healthy influence." Will you continue to send CAB observers to attend I AT A traffic conferences ? "There is no present intention to send an observer again, though I wouldn't say never again." What would you say are the most important next steps for international and domestic air transport ? "Domestically, I would say fares which will put on board aircraft traffic that is at present moving by surface, mostly by automobile. One thing that has concerned me about promotional fares is that some carriers have tended to say that it has been a failure before it has been given enough time. Internationally, I would like to get away from group fares and see a wider range of excursion fares. We approved group fares because we thought it was a step in the right direction, though we didn't like the step itself. And I would like to see in the international sphere foreign airlines earning some really healthy profits, because our carriers are less harrassed if other carriers are healthy." Do you not think that it is the FAA'sjob as the US safety authority to investigate accidents and not the CAB ? "Oh no. We play a role in air safety rather like that of an inspector- general in the Army. We are not affiliated with safety rule-making so we are in a position to be critically constructive. If there is any blurring it was consciously and deliberately done by a Congress that did not want to draw a line too rigidly. Where there is over- lapping—for example in the case of exits and cockpit layout and so on—we solve it on a pragmatical basis. The former FAA administrator, Pete Quesada, was determined to put all safety together, but he had the opposition of all aviation interests in this country." * * * There are at present no fundamental differences between Mr Boyd and his British colleagues, although there is reason to believe that he is worried about the recent British action cutting back SAS and Sabena traffic rights. Britain is America's "Bermuda-principle" partner in international civil aviation, and the Americans feel that it is one thing to extract quid pro quos in traffic-rights bargaining, but quite another actually to impose restrictions on existing oper- ators. In the docket section of the CAB building we availed our- selves of the right enjoyed by every American or foreign citizen to see the files on any airline. Not unnaturally our interest included those British carriers about whose western-routes aspirations and activities there is more information publicly available in Washington than there is in London. British Eagle's One-Eleven Order, possibly for six aircraft, is expected to be announced as this issue closes for press. £LM Pilot Dismissal KLM are to dismiss 45 pilots on November I for reasons of economy, it was announced in the Hague on June 16. About 120 KLM pilots have resigned in the past year. US Share of Atlantic air traffic is now 43 per cent, according to a Pan American estimate, compared with the low of 37 per cent in 1961. PAA's own share is now 25 per cent. Mr Ferry made their 900th departure from Manston airport on lune 27. During the first six months of 1964, 80,000 passengers had 3een carried compared with 120,000 during the whole of 1963. One-Eleven Series 500 A "Viscount 800" development of the 3ne-Eleven, with more payload but less range, is understood to ^e under development for short-haul routes. It would have a 9ft Wretched fuselage and maximum seating for 89. Flying Tiger are using as their British base the Air Couriers hangars at London Gatwick. The British company will provide engineering assistance as required to eight of the airline's 14 Super Constellations as each aircraft is turned round in Britain. French ATCO Strikes Illegal The French National Assembly has passed a bill, which now becomes law, making strikes illegal among air traffic control officers. A total of 870 of some 2,000 ATCOs will be affected. Westland Demonstration Cancelled The visit of a chartered BEA S-61N to Birmingham and Chesterfield, arranged by Westland to take place on July 2, had to be postponed "for technical reasons," Westland announced last week. Mr H. T. Rushton, MBE, commandant at Luton airport since its inception 27 years ago is retiring this year and is due to leave on July 25. He and Mrs Rushton will live in the Isle of Wight. Mr C. K. Cole, DFC, deputy commandant, has been named as his successor.
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