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262 AIR TRANSPORT A Pratt & Whitney JT9D fitted on a Northwest Orient 747 flew for 8,312hr before being removed for maintenance. Air Ang'lia has asked for traffic rights between Edinburgh and Aberdeen on its routes from Norwich to the Scottish oil centre, some of which pass through Edinburgh. The Air Transport Association of America has come out firmly against two-segment approaches. It says that it would cost at least $140 million to install the necessary equipment at all United States airports and would take six or seven years to implement. Air Canada has abandoned its plans for a no-reservation shuttle service between Montreal and Toronto. This was to have started in October, when five Boeing 727-200s are due for delivery. Air Canada says that rising costs have made the project impractical. Pakistan International Airlines is to provide technical co operation and training facilities for Iraqi Airways and will carry out the repair and maintenance of the JT3D engines of the other carrier's three new 707-320Cs. PIA aircrew and engineers will be seconded to the Iraqi airline and Iraqi staff will be trained at PIA's Karachi base. Qantas has been told by the Australian Government not to employ 300 additional cabin staff following a wages award to stewards and hostesses. If the airline cannot employ them it will be unable to maintain its present level of services. The award was due to cost the airline some A$17 million (£12 mil lion) which the Government felt was inflationary. Have Merchantman will travel A British Airways Merchant man took off from Heathrow on August 13, laden with 300 aircraft seats, to a destination not normally associated with British Airways European Division. Two days later the air craft touched dtiwn at Burbank in California, having flown via Keflavik, Goose Bay and Winnipeg. It then flew to Los Angeles, where the seats were off-loaded for fitting into British Airways' second TriStar, and returned to Heathrow via Winnipeg and Goose Bay. • Singapore Airlines' third Boeing 747 was delivered recently with 1,134 seats. The carrier has adopted a denser 401-seat arrangement for its wide-bodies, and the new economy-class seats for retrofit to the first and second aircraft were ferried on the delivery flight. FLIGHT International, 5 September 1974 In 1973 Tarom, the Bomanian flag carrier, carried 635,600 passengers and 10,400 tonnes of freight. Some 126-4 million tonne-kilometres were flown, an increase of 37 per cent on the total for 1972. Balkan Bulgarian Airlines carried 677,700 passengers and 18,600 tonnes of freight and generated 116-4 million tonne-kilometres, an increase of 5 • 8 per cent. Saturn Airways has agreed on terms which will enable it to be merged with Trans International Airlines, subject to approval by the United States Civil Aeronautics Board and its own shareholders. It is planned that each Saturn share will be converted into approximately 85 per cent of a Transamerica share. Transamerica owns TIA. Number two in Europe? In terms of passengers carried the Spanish flag carrier Iberia is now the second biggest airline in Europe. In 1973 it carried nine million passengers, second only to British Airways, which carried 14-7 million. Lufthansa carried eight million. The Iberia passenger total was 1 • 2 mil lion up on that for the previous year. National Airlines last year achieved record earnings of $30 mil lion, 50 per cent up on the figures for 1972-73. For the first time in six years, the airline achieved the 12 per cent return on capital which the United States Civil Aeronautics Board considers reasonable. Operating revenues rose 17 per cent to $456 million and operating income, at $68 million, was up 47 per cent. Japan Air Lines is proposing that one weekly Cathay Pacific flight into Japan should be banned in retaliation for the British Government's decision to restrict JAL's rights into and out of Hong Kong. The restriction was made because the Japanese Government refused to allow Cathay Pacific, the British-owned carrier based in Hong Kong, to operate through Osaka to Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Lufthansa traffic up The German flag carrier, Lufthansa, carried over 4-6 million passengers during the first half of this year, seven per cent more than for the corresponding period last year. Freight, at 135,787 tons, was up by 14-5 per cent. Available capacity increased by 11-3 per cent to a total of 1,747 million ton-kilometres. The number of ton-kilometres sold increased by 13-9 per cent to 1,048 million, with the result that Lufthansa's load factor went up by one point to 60 per cent. Seat load factor, however, declined by one point to 53 per cent. During the first half of this year Lufthansa took delivery of four additional DC-10-30s. Egnsaasa LIGHT COMMERCIAL & BUSINESS Intra application successful Intra Airways' application for licences to operate 30 services weekly between Shore- ham and Jersey and/or Guernsey, with an extension to Gatwick, has been approved by the British Civil Aviation Authority. The service will be for passengers only and operated by Islanders, as the carrier's application for cargo and DC-3 services was rejected. The new service is a replacement for the Shoreham-Channel Islands service operated by JF Airlines, but customs facilities are now available at Shoreham and the extension to Gatwick will connect with Intra's Deauville-Gatwick operation. Nomad progress Although the Government Aircraft Factories Nomad is safe from cancellation, its production is not free from problems. The Fishermen's Bend plant suffers because of its remoteness from Melbourne, which restricts the availability of labour, and the proximity of other skilled industries. GAF's unions are also opposing the subcontracting of some specialised tasks to Common wealth Aircraft Corporation and Hawker de Havilland, which forms part of the Australian Government's long- term plan for unification of the Australian aircraft industry. It is possible that a large proportion of Nomad production work may move to the Department of Supply flight-test base at Avalon, where the rear fuselage and tailplane are already made. US market back up General-aviation deliveries in the United States for the first seven months of 1974 are 3 per cent up on the same period last year; 8,100 units compared with 7,845 in 1973. In cash terms the rise is 8 per cent; the proportionally large rise may be due to a higher proportion of twins and turboprops. The resurgence is particularly welcome in view of the gloomy mood prevalent late last year and immediately after the fuel shortages. TL-KK „ //_ The Falcon 10 above is destined for VIP duties with the air force of the Central African Republic, who took delivery late last month. Below, this Jetstream serving with the French commuter Air Wasteels was at Paris Le Bourget 'G *** • - ,"W"fe ••• : . .'<•
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