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1970
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FLIGHT International, 12 March 1970 million) for missiles and space programmes and $428 million (£177 million) for military aircraft. Deposits for the SST accounted for $57 million (£23.7 million) of "sales." No profit had been made on the four 747s delivered last year because non-recurring and initial production costs had sub stantially exceeded estimates. There was a variety of reasons for this, but engine problems were mainly responsible. Unfulfilled orders at the end of the year amounted to $5,183 million (£2.160 million) compared with $5,176 million (£2,157 million) at the same time in 1968. Of the 1969 total, commercial orders accounted for $4,898 million (£2,040 million), some $434 million (£181 million) more than those at the end of the previous year. CARACAS FARES APPROVED THE US Civil Aeronautics Board has approved the 1ATA transatlantic fare structure agreed by the airlines at Caracas last December. The CAB has also approved the 1ATA contract bulk inclusive-tour fares—the scheduled airlines" big weapon against charter competition—and has allowed the airlines to drop the 5 per cent round-trip discount. The last two were features of the IATA traffic conference at Dallas in January 1969 and had already received limited CAB approval up to September. The first mentioned—the Caracas package—was the result of the crisis precipitated last September when Ali talia, followed by most other North Atlantic carriers, opted out of the Dallas agreement. The CAB says that the Caracas fares, which in the main 371 involve improved conditions for the availability of excursion and other promotional fares (see Flight for January 15. page 77), are clearly in the public interest. Approval is for 13 months, the period before a new two-year IATA agreement, to be negotiated at Honolulu in the autumn, is due to come into force. The CAB was divided over the approval of the CBIT fares, which had earlier been hotly opposed by the supplemental airlines. The board voted 3-2 in favour; the two members opposing, Mr Robert Murphy and Mr Joseph Minetti. wanted to refuse CBIT approval beyond the already-approved limit of September 30 this year. The decision will be a blow to the non-scheduled airlines: it has been the US 1ATA airlines" insecurity of tenure which has tended to inhibit the develop ment of CBIT until now, and an increase in marketing activity can now be expected. 737 for Uruguay A Boeing 737 has been bought by the Uruguayan flag carrier, Pluna. The aircraft, which was delivered last month, should by now be in service on routes normally flown by three of the company's five Viscounts. Britannia in Argentina The Argentinian non-scheduled freight airline, Aerotransportes Entre Rios (AER), recently put a Bristol Britannia 312F into service. The aircraft. LV-PNJ, was previously operated by British Eagle and was delivered to AER last October. KSSU Signs up UTA An agreement has been signed by the member airlines of the KSSU consortium—KLM. SAS. Swiss air and UTA—whereby the membership of the last-mentioned has been ratified. The contract, which is for a ten-year period, completes the consortium. KSSU has its origins in the co-operative agreement between SAS and Swissair, who were later joined by KLM. United's JT8D Expenditure The cost to United Airlines of retrospectively fitting the new low-smoke-emission combustion chambers to its 665 Pratt & Whitney JT8D turbofans will be in the order of $4,000 (£1.670) per engine, or about $2.7 million (£1.1 million) for its entire fleet of 75 Boeing 737s and 150 727s. In accordance with the agreement between airlines and the Departments of Transportation and of Health. Education and Welfare to reduce air pollution, modifications will be started by United this spring, and should be 85 per cent complete by the end of 1972. The Conroy Turbo Albatross flew for the first time on February 25. Conversion of the aircraft to accept Rolls-Royce Darts, in place of its original pistons, began last September. Following earlier Con roy practice on its Turbo Three DC-3 conversion, the engines were taken from a Viscount. Cockpit instrumentation also came from the same source
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