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744 AIR TRANSPORT. O'HARE STAYS ON TOP ONCE again O'Hare, Chicago, tops the list of US airports in terms of air traffic movements—690,810 in 1968, compared with 594,486 at Los Angeles International. Van Nuys, California, was third with 567,973 movements, and Opa Locka, Florida, fourth with 563,618. O'Hare and Los Angeles International were also first and second in terms of airline movements in 1968, with 628,632 and 438,386 respectively. Van Nuys led in the number of general aviation "itinerant" movements—317,816, well over half its total for the year. The surge in traffic over the past decade is underlined by the fact that IFR aircraft handled by Federal Aviation Administration air-route traffic control centres has doubled in the period. In 1968 the total was nearly 19.4 million, as against 16.6 million in 1967. RIGHT International, S May 1969 services: the failure of the two independent airlines, the strike of staff at British United Airways (Channel Islands) in August, and last but certainly not least the BOAC pilots' strike from lune 16 to July 2. But for the BOAC dispute, says the board, the number of passengers carried might have equalled those carried in 1967, instead of showing a 1 per cent drop. Vehicle traffic on cross-Channel air ferries suffered badly, T showing a 30 per cent drop (by weight of cars carried) on the 1967 figure. This was no doubt due at least in part to the closure by British Air Ferries, in September 1967, of their Southampton-based routes to Cherbourg and the Channel Islands. International cargo other than vehicles increased by nearly 6 per cent. Extracts from the statistics are given in the table; details for individual airlines (other than the corporations) are expected to be published shortly. MORE STATISTICS AT LAST? THE publication of traffic statistics for important routes, and of the financial accounts of all British airlines, is expected to be implemented by the Board of Trade before long. Mr William Rodgers, Minister of State, Board of Trade, told the House of Commons last week that discussions on the details of the plan should be completed "in the next few weeks." While most British independent airlines have been in favour of fuller publication of traffic and financial statistics, BOAC and BEA are believed to have been resisting the move quite strongly, on the grounds that they will be the losers and the independents the gainers—at any rate so far as traffic informa tion is concerned. The Board of Trade has been discussing its plan for well over a year, but has been studiously avoiding any suggestion of compulsion. The financial information which it proposes to gather will meet requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organisation, which the United Kingdom does not at present meet. 1968 SCHEDULED TRAFFIC FALLS A FALL in passengers and cargo carried by British airlines on scheduled services in 1968, compared with 1967, is noted by the Board of Trade in figures published last week. The board describes the year as one of a pause in scheduled- service growth. On non-scheduled services the picture was brighter: capacity was 12 per cent higher than in 1967, a year which showed an increase of only 2 per cent up on 1966. There was admittedly a decline in charter operations during the winter months, but this may have been due in part to the closure of two airlines, British Eagle and Transglobe, in November. The figures for January and February this year are not expected to confirm a declining trend in winter charter work. The board lists the 1968 events which hit scheduled Voice Recorders Mandatory for Helicopters? The US Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to make cockpit voice recorders mandatory for helicopters operated in the air transport category. They have been required by the FAA for certain large transport aeroplanes since 1964. The FAA points out that there have been four air-carrier helicopter crashes in the USA since July, 1960. Gatwick Noise Infringements A high rate of infringement by jet departures from Gatwick Airport, London, of the permitted noise level at night (102PNdB) is reported by the Board of Trade for the fourth quarter of 1968. Of 94 departures monitored, 13.8 per cent exceeded the permitted level. For Heathrow the equivalent figure was 2.6 per cent of 820 departures. VFW 614 Flight Date With the main design work on the VFW 614 short-haul jet nearing completion and the R-R/ Snecma M.45H turbofan on test since January, Interavia reports that the first flight is now scheduled for February 1971 with FAA certification by August 1, 1972. Options on the VFW 614 have so far been taken by Sterling (5), Filipinas Orient (2), Bavaria (3) and General Air (2). Aerofiot 1968 Results Writing in the March issue of Grazh- danskaya Aviatsiya, a deputy of the USSR Minister of Civil Aviation, N. Bykov, states that Aerofiot carried 61 million pas sengers in 1968. Of these, 38 million were carried during the summer months, i.e., as many as during the whole of 1964. The heaviest month was August when 8 million passengers were carried—or only about 200,000 fewer than the number carried by Aeroflot in the whole of 1958. The target for 1969 is 68 million passengers and 69,000 million passenger-kilometres, an increase of 12 per cent on 1968. Scheduled services Passengers carried (X 1,000) Passenger-miles (millions) Available seat-miles (millions) Passenger load factor (%) Freight carried (short tons) Capacity short ton-miles (x 1,000) Overall load factor Non-scheduled services Capacity j.t-m. ( X 1,000) Passengers carried BOAC 1968 1,474 5,050 9,301 54.3 50,203 1,482,486 50.4 48,878 12.518+ % change on 1967* -2.7 -1.8 +4.9 58.0 +9.0 +4.0 51.5 +8.6 -8.9 BEA 1968 7,564 2.855 4,673 61.1 126,074 547.704 58.1 27,635 111,293 change on 1967* +2.5 +4.4 + 3.7 60.7 +9.6 +3.7 57.3 -24.2 -16.2 Independent airlines 1968 3,166 859 1,632 52.6 128,175 201,634 54.9 590,279 3.787,460 change on 1967* -7.6 -0.7 + 1.9 54.0 -19.1 +0.7 56.4 + 14.6 + 17.5 Total 1968 12,204 8,765 15,608 56.2 304,452 2,231,825 52.7 666,792 3,911,271 % change on 1967* -0.9 +0.3 +4.2 58.4 -4.7 +3.6 53.4 + 11.8 + 16.0 Traffic carried by British airlines in 1968 * Load futon are actual figures for 1967. t Excluding passengers carried on behalf of foreign airlines.
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