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406 AIR TRANSPORT... national agreements on the exchange of charter rights to develop the air travel market. He wanted an international association of charter carriers, to give European indepen dent and US supplemental airlines an international voice similar to that of lata. Also proposed was the organisation ot a world conference on charter travel in which govern ments, consumer interests and the airlines would band together to ensure the orderly development of a world wide mass air transport system "that truly responds to the needs of the public." Naca recently opened a European office in Paris headed by Dr Nicholas Detiere, a move which signifies an intensi fication of the association's political activity on this side ot the Atlantic. US YAK-40 BILATERAL? A POSSIBLE bilateral airworthiness agreement between the Soviet Union and the United States is meeting with some opposition in America, because sales of US aircraft > ™ c°Viet Union would be unlil<ely to materialise from it. Ihe Soviet request, made last month, to enter negotia tions for such an agreement, was primarily intended to S *6 l7-Seal Y*kA0 trijet feederliner, for which the Charlotte Aircraft Corporation of Charlotte, NC, has nego tiated sales rights in North and South America. The company believes the Yak-40 is saleable provided that the cost is kept below $1 million. AFRICA : ALL SET AN order confirming the second-force airline, Caledonian/ K^t f I opT*01' °f B0AC'S West African r°utes (to Kano Lagos and Accra) after April 1 was made by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry last week The transfer of routes from the corporations producing revenue or some lb million a year was promised to Caledonian/BUA I t?LG,over,?ment- The West African routes produce about £4-3 million; the remainder has not yet been agreed by the Government with the airline. The actual mechanism by which the transfer has been effected to prohibit BOAC from operating the routes under Section 3(5) of the Air Corporations Act 1967 and to exempt Caledonian/BUA from the need for' air- service licences under Section 1(3) of the Civil Aviation (Licensing) Act, 1960. Any doubts about the Government's powers to use these provisions for transferring individual routes were removed by the Civil Aviation (Declaratory Provisions) Act, 1971. y Caledonian/BUA will operate the routes through Tunis, FLIGHT International, 25 March 1971 for which it already holds a licence, and not, like BOAC through Borne, for which fresh traffic rights would have had to have been negotiated with Italy. The airline plans to start up the routes on April 1. CAAC GOES INTERNATIONAL THE first step away from isolationist domestic services will be taken soon by CAAC, the Chinese Republic's airline when it begins services to Bucharest. Technical stops at Istanbul or possibly Ankara will be necessary, but the Romanians had to make the approaches for this permission to be granted because Turkey has no diplomatic relations with the Peoples' Republic. Turkish officials in Ankara said that this agreement would be the first step towards recognition of China by Turkey, which is at present with out a government. Aeroflot to Bangkok? A bilateral air-service agreement between the USSR and Thailand has been drafted and was approved at a meeting in Bangkok on February 27 Signature is expected within three months. Fifth Laker One-Eleven Laker Airways took delivery of an ex-Bahamas Airways BAC One-Eleven 300 last week to supplement the four One-Elevens already on hand. The airline has denied reports that it is buying any more 707s at present. More DC-8 Deliveries Three DC-8s were handed over on March 12; one -61 to JAL, a -62 to Alitalia and the first of three recently ordered -63Fs to World Airways. The JAL aircraft will be used on the Tokyo-Osaka commuter run. A total of 544 DC-8s has now been delivered to 37 airlines. The Trident 3B is to enter service with BEA on the London- Pans route on April 1 this year. So far the airline has taken delivery of two of its final fleet of 26 aircraft, the last of which is expected to be in service by the end of summer 1972. BEA will operate its Trident 3s with the BB.162 boost engine inactive in the initial stages when only few aircraft of the type are in service. Romanian Pact A bilateral air-service agreement between Britain and Romania was initiated by representatives of the two countries in Bucharest recently. When signed it will be the first such treaty (relations have until now been conducted under a less formal understanding). The treaty will impose no frequency or capacity controls. Britain will now have bilaterals with all the Communist-bloc countries except Albania. First components for the A-300B wing—the fixed leading-edge ribs—have been loaded into assembly jigs at the Hawker Siddeley Chester factory. The first wing is due to come off the Chester production line in November for shipment to Toulouse where the Airbus is being assembled
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