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RIGHT International, 14 October 1971 Work continues right) at the new Paris-Nord Airport ot Roissy-en- France, about 17 miles, 27km north of the French capital. First traffic is expected to use the airport by the end of 1973. Paris-Nord will have two widely spaced pairs of runways, the units of each pair being about 800ft, 250m apart. This layout ensures that the two pairs are far enough apart not to interfere with each other's traffic. In VFR conditions the two runways of each pair will be able to handle simultaneously traffic , taking off and landing. In IFR one could still be used for take-off and the other for landing. Work has started (bottom) on a circular "satellite" terminal at Brussels National airport. The new building will be connected to the existing terminal by an escalator EL AL FILLS 747 SINCE its Boeing 747 was introduced on the Lod-London- New York route in June, El Al has recorded a staggering 94-5 per cent average load factor—or an average of more than 370 fare-paying passengers on every flight. High load factors are typical of El Al operations, which benefit heavily from the ethnic market, and account for the air line's opposition to advance-purchase fare proposals. A second 747 will begin flying revenue services in the first week of December on the Lod-Paris-New York route. UTA ASSISTS AN agreement has been signed between Air Ceylon and UTA under which the latter will provide operational assistance and one of its DC-8s to the Ceylon airline for three years from April I. The airline's existing agree ment with BOAC expires next year. The DC-8 will be transferred to the Ceylon register and will fly in Air Ceylon livery with "regionalised" interior decor. Services between Colombo and London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Karachi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Djakarta and Sydney are planned. Colombo-London will be twice a week, and Djakarta and Sydney once each. Sam Silva, Air Ceylon chairman, said last week that the airline would benefit more from the agreement with UTA than from its present pool with BOAC and Qantas. He added that it was the most favourable contract entered into by the airline in its 25 years' of existence. Air Ceylon expects to earn a foreign-currency surplus of more than £1-5 million over the three-year period. BRITISH CALEDONIAN FLEET PLANS A DECISION on future fleet requirements is expected i from British Caledonian within a few months. With a "close, final study" being made of TriStar, DC-10-30, I A-300B and Concorde the airline appears to be throwing I up a smoke screen around its intentions. A thirteenth BAC One-Eleven 500 is to join the fleet next spring and will begin operating on April 1. Delivery , of a 14th such aircraft is planned for the spring of 1973. One Series 200 aircraft has been sold to the British Ministry of Defence (Aviation), and has been delivered to BAC at Hum for conversion work to be carried out. The airline's fleet in 1972 will total the same as in 1971, [but capacity will be greater. One all-freight 707-320C, •leased this year, is being replaced by a passenger aircraft. |The new 500 Series One-Eleven, which can carry 119 pas sengers, replaces the 200 Series which was laid out with 79 seats. The 1972 fleet will consist of 32 jets, including eight Joeing 707-320Cs (capable of carrying 186 passengers) for ang-haul charters; 4 VClOs (93 tourist and 16 first-class passengers) for scheduled services; 13 One-Eleven 500s find seven One-Eleven 200s for scheduled flights and ticlusive-tour charters within Europe and the Mediter- |anean area. IAURU OPERATIONS ["HE decision by the Republic of Nauru (800 miles north- feast of the Solomon Islands) to order a Fokker F.28 Mk 1000 fitted with long-range tanks, for delivery next (January, appears to be a frank statement of policy. Though Nau-u has a small financial interest in Fiji Air- vays/South Pacific Airways, it will not heed the Fiji Government's appeal for all non-American, non-French ^*g£&£& South Pacific aviation interests to group themselves under the Fijian umbrella. The Fijians regard this as the only way to meet the challenge of the American moves in nominating Continental/ Micronesia and Pan American to provide a network of local services, connecting American Samoa with the Trust territories via the South Pacific Island groups. The current "Air Nauru" operation is a weekly service from Australia to Nauru, which is actually operated with a Dassault Falcon by Business Jets Pty Ltd of Melbourne, who will also operate the F.28. The US Civil Aeronautics Board has appointed Charles F. Butler as director of its bureau of international affairs. A-300B costs The total cost of the A-300B programme, quoted as about £600 million in Flight last week through an arithmetical error, should have been in the region of £700 million. <*<*J«J. MMn
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