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6 FLIGHT Inter national, 7 January 1965 AIR TRANSPORT... Ansett-ANA's Sikorsky S-6IN made its first fight in Australia last month and is seen here on a test flight over Melbourne. It is being used for flights between the Queensland coast and Hayman Island, a tourist resort on the Great Barrier Reef BRAZIL TRAFFIC RIGHTS FOR BUA UNTIL last week British United Airways had been without traffic rights in Brazil for its South American services. Approval of passenger rights for one flight a week through Rio de Janeiro was announced on December 31. BUA oper- ates two flights a week through Brazil and will obviously press for similar rights on the second weekly service. Although pick-up and set-down rights had been obtained for Montevideo (Uruguay), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Santiago (Chile) the Brazilian authorities had, after earlier hopes, remained intransigent; because of its inability to serve Rio BUA has had very low load factors on its South American services. Last week Mr John Stonehouse, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Aviation, arrived in Rio de Janeiro on the first stage of a tour of the cities on BUA's route. He evidently pressed the Brazilian authorities success- fully for a decision. Swissair Has Ordered a DC-9 Simulator from Canadian Aviation Electronics. Delivery of the airline's ten DC-9s is due to start in June 1966. First Boeing 727 for BWIA was handed over on December 22 and has been flown out to Trinidad before returning to Miami for crew training this month. British West Indian Airways has three 727s on order. A DC-8-50 has been ordered by VIASA, the Venezuelan carrier, for delivery in the autumn of this year. VIASA's long-haul services are at present operated by KLM DC-8s on wet lease. DC-8 sales now total 244. The accident in Bolivia to Abaroa Airlines' DC-3 (Flight, December 24, page 1068) is now believed to have been caused by a dynamite charge planted by a heavily insured passenger. The aircraft was flying between Tipuana and La Paz. British United Airways' 1964 Traffic Provisional figures for scheduled operations by BUA and its home-based associates in- clude totals of 1,109,981 passengers (5.2 per cent up on 1963) and 38,849 short tons of freight (19 per cent up on 1963). A Second Handley Page Herald (a Series 200) has been ordered by Bavaria Fluggesellschaft of Munich, which has also taken an option on a third Herald. The aircraft will be used for inclusive tours, freighting and for scheduled services flown on behalf of Lufthansa. No Moscow Rights Yet for KLM Reports from the Netherlands that KLM had obtained traffic rights through Moscow on its services to and from the East (Flight, December 24, page 1066) were premature. Discussions have, as reported, been held and the airline's manager for Europe will be having further talks in Moscow, but there is no certainty yet that traffic rights will be obtained. One-Eleven Demonstration Tour of Australia is planned for March. It may be extended to New Zealand. A BAC technical sales mission was in Australia last month. New Passenger Facilities At Luton are to be provided by April 1966 in the form of a single-storey £750,000 terminal capable of dealing with 12,000 passengers a day. Two Boeing 707-320Bs have been ordered by Transportes Aereos Portugueses. First will be delivered early in 1966. These are the first long-haul jets to be ordered by Portugal's flag carrier. US Domestic Trunks carried 60.7m passengers in 1964—an increase of 13.7 per cent on the 1963 total. Revenue passenger-miles totalled 41,800m—or a 14.8 per cent increase. Cargo ton-miles increased by 24.7 per cent. A Flying Tiger Line L-1049 crashed into the San Bruno mountain near San Francisco in the early hours of December 24 while on a cargo flight from San Francisco to New York. Three crew members, the only occupants, were killed. A Fleming Air Services DC-3 operating on a domestic service in the Philippines, crashed into a lake in the southern Aklan province. The captain was killed; the 35 passengers and three other crew members escaped. Application for London (Gatwick) - Brussels Services has been made by British United Airways. If approved, the service will be started, using BAC One-Elevens, in the spring. BUA originally applied for approval on this route in 1961, but the request was then refused. Capt W. B. Caldwell, one of BEA's very senior pilots, retired from the corporation's service on December 31, his 60th birthday. Capt Caldwell had been flying for 32 years and had logged about 20,000hr. He plans to continue commercial flying. Increase in BAC One-Eleven Orders is being considered by Mohawk Airlines. According to Aviation Week a decision on future re- equipment leading to an all-turbine fleet will be made by the airline in February. Mohawk has five One-Elevens on order and two on option. Improved Passenger Handling Facilities are, according to Mr Anthony Milward, writing in the current BEA Magazine, urgently needed by the corporation. The chairman said that the airline's traffic department was developing new ideas and had, among other things, built a prototype powered passenger gangway to be used in conjunction with Heathrow's new piers. Two Turboprop Potez 842s have, according to Aviation Daily, been ordered by German companies for executive work. First is due for delivery soon and the second in September. An initial order for this P & W PT6A-6-engined transport was given by the French Ministry of Public Works recently (Flight, December 31,1964, page 1107).
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