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FLIGHT 'nternational, IS July 1968 MOSCOW-NEW YORK AT LAST THE planned start on July 15 of Moscow-New York services bv Pan American and Aeroflot is the culmination of a ten- year series of proposals, meetings, near-agreements and set- backs. Interest in the service was first expressed by the Russians in 1958 and the Soviet-US cultural exchange agreements in 1958-59 contained promises that an air pact would be signed in due course. In 1959 the two Governments agreed to start talks, but the U-2 incident, the abortive Paris summit meeting and the shooting-down of a USAF RB-47 caused the USA to propose that talks should be postponed until "a more suitable time." In 1961 the US President, then Mr John F. Kennedy, con- sidered that such a moment had arrived and a basic agreement was initialled after 15 days of negotiation. But the building of the Berlin Wall and the Cuba incident intervened and the signing was postponed until 1963, when relations improved again only to be soured by the Vietnam war. Late in 1966 President Johnson suggested that the old agree- ment should be looked at once again; the USSR agreed and a PAA-Aeroflot technical agreement was signed in January 1967. This time it was the USSR who procrastinated—presumably because Aeroflot could, at that time, use only the turboprop Tu-114 in competition with Pan American's long-haul jets, and preferred to wait until the 11-62 was available. Before the end of last year the 11-62 was operating on the Moscow-Montreal run and earlier this year PAA's 707s had been cleared for operation to Moscow's Sheremetievo Airport and Aeroflot's U-62s had ibeen checked out with proving flights into JFK New York and other eastern seaboard airports. Aeroflot is, as already reported (see Flight for June 27, page 949), operating via Montreal and Pan American via Copenhagen, with sector traffic rights only between Moscow and Montreal and between New York and Copenhagen respectively. AUSTRIA-USSR AGREEMENT A NEW air transport agreement between Austria and the USSR was formally signed in Vienna on July 2. The agreement replaces that dating from 1955, which merely covered direct nights between Moscow and Vienna. In future, Aeroflot and Austrian Airlines will be authorised to add a service with intermediate landing in Kiev, as well as direct services between Kiev and Vienna and between Leningrad and Vienna. In addition, Aeroflot's hitherto provisional right to operate beyond Vienna to Zurich has been made permanent, and new rights to fly via Vienna to France and Italy, and thence to overseas destinations, have been added, while AUA gets rights to operate via Moscow and Tashkent to the Far East. How soon either airline will make use of its new rights is not known. AUA, for one, has neither the aircraft to expand its route network at the moment nor the money to buy new aircraft for the purpose, and regards the Russian rights as part of a very long-term programme. 91 BWIA REORGANISATION THE Government of Trinidad and Tobago has sold part of its 90 .per cent interest (reported to be between 25 and 40 per cent) in British West Indian Airways to Caribbean International, a tourist development company, in an effort to get the airline into a better financial shape. Established by R. W. Pressprich & Co International, and Lorenzo, Carney & Co, investment bankers in hotel development, Caribbean International is expected to invest about £12 million in BWIA, in which BOAC still has a 10 per cent shareholding. Long-term plans involve the development of the airline as a regional Caribbean carrier and extension of the present New York-Miami-Caribbean- Venezuela-Guyana-Surinam route network to include Britain, Canada and additional points in South America. The services of Leeward Islands Air Transport, in which BWIA has a 51 per cent interest, may also be expanded. BUA Interline Sales Mr Pat Barrass has been appointed interline sales manager for British United Airways in succession to Mr Henry Williams who has left the airline. Mr Barrass joined BUA six years ago. Aviation Insurance Story A paper based on part of HR10, the Insurance Institute of London working party's report of 1967, is available in booklet form. This, A Short History of Aviation Insurance in the United Kingdom, is priced 2s and is obtainable from the Chartered Insurance Institute, The Hall, 20 Aldermanbury, London EC2. US Travel Advice Trans World have produced a 1968 edition of Travel Tips USA, which provides information for visitors to America, including such essentials as average ambient temperatures, recommendations on difficult matters such as tipping, and the ranges of hotel charges in leading US cities. JAL in London Mr Kiyotsugo Abo, formerly regional manager in Italy for Japan Air Lines, has been appointed to the vacant position of regional manager, UK and Eire. Mr Tonao Senda remains in London as European general manager, a position he has held for six years while also acting as UK regional manager. . _ Preparing for the DC-10 Mr M. R. Rowe has been appointed manager of advanced commercial marketing and Mr Neil Burgess as manager of airline relations in the commercial engine division of the US General Electric's aircraft engine group. These appointments are relevant in particular to the DC-10 which is to be fitted with GE CF-6 engines, and later to the Boeing SST and projected Lockheed L-500 which will also be GE-powered. One of Autair's two Airspeed Ambassadors (G-ALZZ), still painted in the owner's livery, is also carrying the name Skyways Coach Air, to which it is being leased on a monthly basis until finally retired at the end of the summer season. The picture was taken on the apron at Luton Airport
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