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ICHT International, 18 January 1968 77 AIR TRANSPORT Bids for the North Atlantic . URVIVING CONTESTANTS in the latest assault by British 5 independent airlines on the scheduled North Atlantic antes were due to appear before the Air Transport Licensing loard in London this week. British United and Transglobe withdrew from the fray three weeks ago after the Presadent of ie Board of Trade had killed off large sections of their appli- ations (see Flight for December 28, page 1057). Caledonian Ind British Eagle International, least affected by the Board of Trade's action, remained undaunted as the ATLB hearings pened on January 16. Initially the dice appeared loaded ainst them, for Mr J. P. W. Mallalieu, Minister of State, oard of Trade, had stated in Parliament on December 4 that British operators, in making their plans, would no doubt take nto account the possibility of policy changes arising from the Lork of the Edwards Committee. No sdgn of discouragement |as, however, apparent in the thorough preparations made by two airlines prior to the hearings, which gave every indica- on of a determined fight ahead. The crux of the matter is the extent to which the American irriers have taken, and are taking, bites out of BOAC's ice of the North Atlantic cake, and the extent to which this tuation can be rectified by letting other British airlines in. In its case presented to the ATLB, British Eagle looks first le total passengers carried between Europe and the USA, and vice rsa, by US, UK, and other operators - USA operators Pass 0/A totalpan UK operators Pass total pass All other carriers Pass 0//o totalpass Totalpass irope — USA — Europe traffic 1962 1963 1964 965 1966 K-USA—UK traffic 986,9621,161.477 1,408.681 1,630,394 1,891.072 39.241.3 40.4 40.9 41.4 286,521316,692 367,688 402.431 434,753 11.411.3 10.5 10.1 9.5 1,241,7921,332,207 1,714,167 1,951,748 2,240,534 49.447.4 49.1 49.0 49.1 2,515,275 2,810,376 3,490,536 3,984,573 4,566.359 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 320,298 380,580 490,675 614,553 729,561 45.4 48.0 49.6 52.6 55.1 279,495 299,589 358,642 399.395 430,613 39.6 37.7 36.3 34.2 32.6 105,663 113,202 139,139 153.730 162,641 15.0 14.3 14.1 13.2 12.3 705,456 793,371 988,456 1,167,678 1,322,815 at shipping, and points to a declining balance of payments contribution from the UK industry, with British fleets having fallen from 45.5 per cent of the world tonnage in 1900 to 12.6 per cent in 1966. The swing of passenger traffic from sea to air on the North Atlantic is well known (49.6 per cent of the 1,631,000 passengers went by air in 1955, while 89.2 per cent of the 5,119,000 did so in 1966), while a similar trend can be seen in the cargo field. In the period 1956-1966, shipping only produced a positive contribution to the UK's balance of pay- ments in 1965 and 1966, while air transport has done so since 1960. Nevertheless, this contribution of air transport has stood still at about £23 million a year since 1961. The effort must therefore be made, says British Eagle, to take for Britain a larger part of the increasing traffic going by air. A main objective in allowing additional British carriers on to these routes would be the reversal of the present decline in the proportion of traffic carried by British operators. Contained in British Eagle's presentation to the ATLB is the table given on this page, which illustrates the growth of the American carriers at the expense of the British in particular (these figures refer to itotal traffic, including charter operations). The applications may be summarised as follows:— British Eagle: London-New York, 14 weekly, Apri-October. other-wise seven weekly; London /Liverpool/ Manchester /Prestwick-New York/ Boston /Philadelphia/Washington/Detroit/Chicago, unrestrictedfrequency starting April 1, 1970. London-Bermuda/Nassau-Kingston (opt) -Montego Bay (opt), starting April 1, 1969. Caledonian Airways: London/Prestwick/Manchester/Birmingham-New York-Boston (opt) -Philadelphia (opt) -Baltimore (opt) -Wash- ington (opt). London/Prestwick/Manchester/Birmingham-Toronto/Montreal. London/Prestwick/Manchester/Birmingham-Chicago (opt) -Los Angeles/San Francisco. Frequencies according to traffic demand.Starting May 1, 1969, except the last, which is May 1, 1970. Scheduled services by British carriers—in other words by BOAC—come in for close scrutiny -by both the independents, and here the story looks somewhat depressing. BOAC's share of the scheduled market is declining, says Caledonian, from a peak of 15.5 per cent in 1959, to 12.3 in 1966, and 11.3 in the first nine months of 1967. The corporation carried 44.2 per cent as much traffic as that carried by its US competitors Pan American and TWA in 1961, and this fell to 33.1 per cent in 1965, 34.1 per cent in 1966, and 31.3 per cent in the first nine tilippine Air Lines now has three BAC One-Elevens in service on domestic and regional routes. One is seen arriving at Manila, another ft) is taking on stores and the third is preparing to taxi out. PAL have a fourth One-Eleven on order for delivery later this year «f are actively studying the 500 series and other stretched versions
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