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1976
1976 - 0042.PDF
54 AIR TRANSPORT provide a co-ordinated and stable operating environment on the North Atlantic "could go a long way towards improving industry results." The 1976 prospects for economic recovery from the most severe, prolonged postwar recession now appear secure. A four per cent economic growth rate and consumer price inflation in OECD countries held to an 8-5 per cent increase is predicted. YX ESCAPES THE AXE A FORMULA has been found by which collaboration between Boeing and Japanese manufacturers on an advanced airliner can continue. Last month Boeing and the Japanese Civil Transport Development Corporation (CTDC, an organisation supported by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, with the participation of major Japanese manufacturers) will "work toward developing a definitive memorandum of understanding." This agreement emerged from a meeting of Japanese and US officials late last month in Tokyo. The Japanese use the designation YX to cover collabora tion with Boeing, but in fact the programme is the 7X7. Before the meeting last month the Ministry of Inter national Trade and Industry was told that YX funding— necessary to cover the running costs of CTDC—would be eliminated from the FY76 budget if no firm conclusions were reached. One stumbling block is the fact that Boeing is asking for an investment of somei $160 million as the Japanese share of development work in the US. In Japan this is seen as a cash payment for foreign technology, and the industry doubts whether there is any point even asking the Govern ment to propose, or the Diet to approve, such a payment. Fifty of CTDC's staff have been recalled by the manufac turers who employed them over the past year, and disen chantment with the progress of collaboration is very evident. In the present state of the Japanese economy, it is doubted whether the industry can match the Italian contribution to 7X7. "CARGO FORCE" PROPOSED FOR BRITAIN BRITISH all-cargo airlines should be formed into a "cargo force" with special rights and a minimum of obstructive regulation, together with protection from large, non- specialised operators. Mr Alan Stocks, managing director of IAS Cargo Airlines, proposes that the four airlines in the Cargo Force would be IAS, British Caledonian Airways (Charter) Cargo Division, Transmeridian Air Cargo and Tradewinds Airways. In his reply to the Civil Aviation Authority's consulta tive document on air freight (see Flight for October 9, page 520), Mr Stocks proposes that Cargo Force carriers only would be allowed to charter foreign-registered aircraft for all-cargo operations, and that the Cargo' Force should be given a formal identity by the Department of Trade in negotiations with foreign governments. MANDATORY REPORTING IN UK MANDATORY Occurrence Reporting is now required of UK-registered public-transport aircraft weighing more than 2,300kg. Reports are computer-processed and a weekly digest is circulated to the industry—manufacturers, airlines, pilots and engineers. The Civil Aviation Authority stresses that reports will remain confidential unless disclosure is required by law or the informant gives consent. Lord Boyd-Carpenter empha sises that the CAA's concern is "to secure free and unin hibited reporting," adding "that it will not be policy to institute proceedings in respect of unpremeditated or inadvertent infringements reported under the scheme." An information and guidance document is available to all those affected by the scheme. FLIGHT International, w/e 10 lanuary 1976 Airliner market Sales of five Airbus Industrie A300s were confirmed last month. Airbus claims that twice as many A300s were sold last year as DC-lOs and TriStars combined, and that 'he A300 outsold the 747. Three A300B2s have been sold to Air Inter (the official announcement taking place just after the last issue of Flight went to press) and Air France has con firmed options on two A300B4s, its eighth and ninth air craft. The domestic carrier will inaugurate Paris-Marseilles and Paris-Lyons A300 services following delivery of the first aircraft on September 30; the second aircraft will follow on December 10 and the third on February 28, 1978. Although the third delivery is thus some way off, Air Inter president Robert Vergnaud says that more orders are in prospect. Air Inter is in a bullish mood after making a profit around FrlO million in 1975 (according to preliminary estimates), offsetting its 1974 deficit. The Air Inter A300s will be certificated for Category 3 automatic landing, and will seat 280 economy-class passengers. The purchase is being financed 30 per cent from airline funds and 70 per cent from outside loans. Six days after the Air Inter announcement Air France confirmed that two more A300B4s will join its fleet, one in March this year and one twelve months later. As well as flying European routes the two aircraft will link Paris to Dakar, Cairo, Beirut and Djibouti, helping the airline to retire its older, pure-jet 707s • Air Malta may wet-lease a TriStar from British Airways European Division for the summer season on Malta-London services. British Airways is keen to use the TriStar on the route; a decision in principle between leas ing and the more usual commercial agreement, to balance the two airlines in competition, is imminent. Air Malta's year-round traffic will not yet support a wide-body • British Air Ferries has sold one of its five Aviation Traders ATL.98 Carvairs to a French construction company, for freight operations in Iran. BAF is looking for a fourth Handley Page Herald • It is understood that British Airtours has decided on the Boeing 737 as its next aircraft, and that second-hand aircraft may be acquired D Second-hand Fokker-VFW F.27s remain in short supply. SAS cannot find replacements for its Convair 440s and two of these1 aircraft will now remain in service until November. Negotiations over Ozark Air Lines' Fairchild-Hiller FH-227s have not been successful. Meanwhile Linjeflyg, profiting from the international airline's lack of short-haul turboprop air craft, has taken over the Stockholm-Lulea route and may use BAC Viscounts leased from charter carrier Skyline. Air Anglia is also looking for a sixth F.27 to cope with route expansion • Interavia AirLetter reports that Jugo- slovenski Aerotransport is near to an order for two Boeing 747SPs • Monarch Airlines has retired its last BAC Britannia from its own services, although the aircraft re mains on lease • Tempair International is to operate DETA Mozambique's Lorenzo Marques - Lisbon service under a contract worth $4-5 million in its first year. A leased Boeing 707-320C will be used • Delivery of two Boeing 737-200Cs to TAAG of Angola, due this month and next, has been blocked by the US State Department "until such time as it is clear that there is a national government in Angola" • LOT Polish Airlines is interested in the Yakovlev Yak-42 as a replacement for eight II-18s.
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