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fUGH ATLANTIC TRAFFIC RECOVERY? AFTER an extremely poor first half of the year, during which cl-neer traffic increased by only a little over 4 per cent •n Son to 1967 (see Flight for September 12, page 398), rite traffic of IATA carriers on the North Atlantic showed a M improvement during July. In that month there was an wease of more than 12 per cent on the passenger total for I lv 1967- The improvement, however, was not maintained; in August the growth-rate fell back again to a little less than 4 oer cent Cargo growth, well up during the first half with an average increase of 23 per cent, continued to improve in July with a 26 per cent increase on the same month of 1967. The poor passenger-growth rate in the first half of the year has applied to most of the airlines. In April, for instance, BOAC recorded an increase of only a little over 2 per cent on the same month for 1967, and the airline's average pas- senger load factor dropped from around 68 per cent to 58 percent. v. BOACgiving individiualLUFTHANSATHE table below, givin airline traffic between the USA and Europe/UK for the first six months, shows that BOAC still holds third place in spite of the pilots' strike in June-July, which grounded the airline for the last 15 days of the half-year. The margin over Lufthansa for the period repre- sented 11,313 pasesngers—in spite of the fact that the German carrier offered 41,165 more seats, with a consequently poor average passenger load factor of 44.2 per cent against BOAC's 542 per cent. The highest load factors recorded were those for El Al (64.4 per cent) and Irish International (61.1 per cent). The lowest was that of JAL (24.6 per cent). The delayed effect of the BOAC strike was seen, however, in July when the corporation carried only 40,889 passengers against Lufthansa's 52,239—giving the latter airline a (probably temporary) 37-passenger lead for the seven-month period. US-EUROPE TRAFFIC, JANUARY-JUNE 1948 Carrier PAA TWA BOAC Lufthansa Alitalia Air France SAS KIM SwisiairECAC Irish Sab«na Iberia Olympic Air India Qantas TAP JAL Total Passengers 456,557 366,526 159,346 148,033 105,662 104,511 91,130 90,156 69,648 69,007 60,549 36,825 28,750 27,701 17,930 12,501 3,678 3,319 1,853,829 % total 24.73 14.37 8 59 7.98 5.69 5.63 4.91 4.86 3.75 3.72 3.26 1.98 1.551.49 0.96 0.67 0.19 0.17 Seats 914,399 734,778 293,799 334,964 219,641 245,294 204,820 186,717 145,872107,234 99,060 86.372 67,49462,895 43,694 21,404 14,746 13,504 3,796,687 Lead factor (%) 50.1 49.9 54.2 44.2 48.1 42.6 44.5 48.3 47.764.4 61.1 42.6 42.644.0 41.0 58.4 24.9 24.6 48.8 689 More Stretched DC-8s for JAL Three more DC-8-61s have been ordered by Japan Air Lines at a cost of about $30 million (£12.5 million). They will be delivered in January, February and March 1970. Three-million-hour Caravelles The 246 Sud Caravelles at present in service had, by the beginning of October, logged 3.1 million hours—or 12,600hr per aircraft, with 21 of them each exceeding 20,000hr. All-jet Swissair With the start of Swissair's winter schedules on October 1 the airline has retired all propeller aircraft except the F.27s operated by Balair for Swissair on regional services, including a new one from Zurich to Innsbruck. 707 for UAA Delivered The first of three Boeing 707-320Cs for United Arab Airlines (SU-AOU) made its delivery flight from Seattle to Cairo, via Heathrow Airport, London, on October 21. It enters service between Cairo and London tomorrow, November 1. The second -320C for UAA will be delivered in May next year. More Jets for THY? Turkish Airlines (THY) have approval to order up to nine more short/medium-haul jets for delivery by early 1970 and with the first likely to go into service between June and October 1969. At present the airline has two DC-9-30s and one DC-9-10 (leased) in service in addition to one DC-7C/F, four Viscount 700s, four Fokker F.27-100s and four Fairchild Hiller F.27s. UBA to Buy Short-haul Jets Funds have been allocated in the Burmese Government budget for the fiscal year 1968 (October 1)-1969 for the purchase by Union of Burma Airways of two short-haul jets and one executive jet. A decision on the type of short-haul jet is not expected until next year, though the smaller jet may be ordered soon because it is needed for pilot training, ATC calibration and VIP transport. UBA has five F.27s, three Viscounts and about eight DC-3s. More L-lOOs Ordered Southern Air Transport has ordered two Lockheed L-100-20 freighters from Lockheed-Georgia at a cost of $7 million (£3 million) for delivery next month and December. The -20 is the fuselage-stretched version of the L-100 with a capacity of 50,0001b. A Miami leasing company, International Aerodyne, has bought a Lockheed L-100 freighter for delivery later this month. Among the company's recent purchases are six Twin Otters, of which five are leased to Hawaii Jet-Aire and the sixth to Skymark Airlines. Preparing for the DC-10 McDonnell Douglas and Flight Safety Inc have signed a long-term contract which provides that Douglas pilots will train in FSI's DC-10 simulator, which will be available to pilots of airlines which buy the DC-10. Delivery of the simulator to FSI's Long Beach, Cal, facility is scheduled to coincide with the first flight of the DC-10 late in 1970. It has been ordered from the Conductron-Missouri division of Conductron Corporation, St Charles, Missouri. To ease the traffic con- gestion at Los Angeles, wme charter flights have recent// been using Long Beoch where this picture of iudflug DC-8 D-AD/M was wen. Originally Swissair's no-IDA and now on lease ™ s"dflug, this aircraft Snrwi. far Jog,sed cboutU,p00hr-which is prob- 1%$ h'Zhest figure for
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