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1972
1972 - 0577.PDF
FLIGHT International, lb March 1972 373 AIR TRANSPORT FARES POWER ALMOST LAW THE Bill seeking to confer on the US Civil Aeronautics Board the power to control international fares is virtually certain to pass into law; backed by the Administration, it had completed its passage through the Senate and House of Representatives as we closed for press, and had been sent to the White House for Presidential signature. The Bill when law will allow the CAB to suspend or reject fares proposed by foreign airlines in so far as they affect travel to and from the USA. There is also a clause giving the President overall power to countermand the CAB's actions. This reform of the US law was prompted by the Atlantic fares dispute and the threatened (but narrowly averted) open-rate situation within lata last autumn. Fares originally suggested by Lufthansa in particular were attacked by the US carriers as being disastrously low. LICENCES ARE THE CONDITION FIVE British airlines last week opposed the transfer of licences held by Skyways International to Dan-Air, which plans to take control of the company on April 6. The, opposition came at an Air Transport Licensing Board hear ing in London. One objector, British Air Ferries, suggested that if the board approved the transfer of the licences to Dan-Air it would be condoning what was in effect the sale of the licences. Dan-Air wants the licences in exactly the same terms as those now held by Skyways; its success in obtaining them is a condition of the purchase of Skyways. Dan-Air has chosen to buy the company's business and assets for £650,000, but not its shares, which are held jointly by Sterling Industrial Securities and a consortium of the company's employees. Dan-Air officials suggested to the ATLB that if they did not get the licences in the terms requested, the sale of Skyways would have to be renegotiated or called off altogether. Bangladesh Biman, new national carrier of Bangladesh, began operating London-Dacca charter services by sub contract to British Caledonian on March 4. Affinity-group requirements between London and Dacca have been waived by DTI on humanitarian grounds. Pan American last week laid off 500 management and "white-collar" workers in yet another trimming of the airline's staff. Total redundancies since September 1969 are put at 5,200; the number of personnel at the end of February stood at 36,200. The airline suffered a loss of $13 million in January, against $8-7 million in January 1971. The maiden flight of the Pratt & Whitney-powered DC-IO-20 (top and left) came on February 28, when the aircraft was airborne for 4hr lOmin. The variant has been ordered by Northeast (14 with a further 14 options). The present engines, JT9D-I5s, will be replaced by JT9D-25s, raising the thrust of each by 3,0001b to 50,0001b. Note (left) the centre main undercarriage leg, which is not installed on the DC-10-IOs already in service at a lower gross weight
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