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f LIGHT International, 14 May 1977 -4- page 1299 tions at Dulles will set the pace for approval of the Braniff interchange, but the start of the certification pro cess removes one barrier to Concorde operations within the US. Hapag-Lloyd to buy Bavaria Germanair HAPAG-LLOYD FLUG, the charter airline subsidiary of German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd, is to take over Bavaria Germanair. The move comes only months after the original merger of Bavaria and Germanair, which took effect on January 1 this year. Bavaria Germanair owner Josef Sehorghuber now says that he wants to concentrate on his activities in the construction industry. It is expected that the two airlines will continue to trade and operate independently. Hapag-Lloyd is based at Bremen and Bavaria Germanair at Munich, and their fleets are not very compatible: Hapag-Lloyd has eight Boeing 727-100s and Bavaria German air flies two Airbus A300B4s, seven BAC One-Eleven 500s and two 400s. Hapag-Lloyd is said to be interested in the A300 as a long-term replace ment for the 727. With just over a quarter of the market, the new group is second to Lufthansa subsidiary Condor among Germany's charter airlines. Dr Horst Wilner of Hapag-Lloyd said last month that holiday charter bookings in West Germany for the 1977 season are 15 per cent up on last year's figures. CAB delays transatlantic ruling US CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD members have decided to postpone consideration of the transatlantic route case until a new US-UK air agreement has been signed. Some minor aspects of the case were ex cepted from the delay, including a National Airlines application for a low-fare service between Miami and Luxembourg. The CAB presented the results of the transatlantic proceeding to Presi dent Ford in July last year, recom mending designation of two new transatlantic carriers — Delta and Northwest—and 11 new gateways. The decision was sent back without Presidential approval to the CAB in December, mainly because of the uncertainty surrounding US-UK air relations. At that time President Ford asked the CAB to produce a new decision by September. The delay is primarily due to the current US-UK negotiations. But the fact that the CAB is still pre dominantly staffed by Republican appointees, and is thus in an anoma lous position in its relationship with the Democrat Administration, must have a bearing on the decision. Airliner market y"PB"le) Air-India has retired its four Rolls- Royce Conway-powered Boeing 707- 420s • Air Tanzania, newly formed after the break-up of East African Airways, has ordered a pair of Fokker-VFW F.27 Mk 600s. They will join two F.27s already flying in Tanzania towards the end of this year. Both aircraft will be fitted with the rough-field landing gear developed for the F.27 • All Nippon Airways is looking for a larger domestic wide- body, and expects to place an order before the end of March next year. Candidate aircraft are the Boeing 747SR and the Lockheed L-1011-300 TriStar, a stretched aircraft with up to 480 seats. All Nippon says however that it is looking for 1979 delivery and it is not certain that the TriStar 300 can meet this deadline. The 747SR would be offered with Rolls-Royce RB.211s • American Airlines has ordered nine more Boeing 727-200S • Braniff has also ordered four 727s (time for a 727 Market column?) at a cost of $49 • 7 million. Deliveries will start in August 1978 • Egyptair is leasing a pair of Airbus A300s from Trans European Airways for scheduled services from Cairo to Frankfurt and the Gulf region • Japan Air Lines has ordered its seventh and eighth McDonnell Aeroflot shakes up flight-deck force SOME Aeroflot pilots, flight engineers and navigators have been downgraded in the course of the airline's current reassessment and reclassification of its aircrew. Some of the work is being carried out by training staff and in spectors from the individual Aeroflot directorates, but overall control rests with a central head office team which is visiting directorates in turn at a rate of around one a month. Aeroflot's safety record has been giving rise to some concern in the West, particularly in view of the fact that no statistics are published. The present shake-up of the Aeroflot air crew force is not being publicly linked to the airline's safety record, but many of the problems uncovered by the head office team are safety- related. Flight documentation correctly pre pared at headquarters has been found to be defective at unit level (one stage down from the directorates). Difficulties have also arisen, it is re ported, when An-2 pilots have been 1300-1301 Douglas DC-10-40s at a cost of nearly $80 million. They will be delivered in autumn of next year • LAB-Boliviano has ordered a pair of Boeing 727-200s, for delivery in June and August of next year. LAB will be the second 727 customer to specify a "throttle- pusher" (automatic performance re serve) system and the contingency- rated Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17R engine. The airline operates from the world's highest jet airport, El Alto at La Paz (13,398ft). The new LAB 727s will be the first to have Omega navi gation systems and suppressed an tennas replacing the characteristic probe on the rear of the tailplane bullet • Martinair is negotiating to buy a fourth McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF, for delivery in October of next year • Middle East Airlines has dry-leased its third Boeing 747 Combi to Air France, which will operate it on behalf of newly formed Air Gabon • Qantas has sold another three 707s, one to Zambian Airways and two to ITEL Equipment Manage ment Company of San Francisco • Saudia has ordered two more Lock heed L-1011-200 TriStars with RB.211- 524s, bringing its total orders for the type to ten aircraft. The latest pair will be delivered in late 1978 • TWA has taken options on up to ten Boeing 727s, for delivery next year • United Airlines plans to order 18 more Boeing 727s, subject to contract, for delivery in the last third of 1978 and the first quarter of 1979. The latest batch will bring United 727 orders to 46 since last September, and will replace early-model 727-100s. Pro duction rate of the 727 is being in creased from seven to 11 a month by mid-1978. promoted to command jet or turbo prop aircraft, with the problems of managing a larger crew added to the greater complexity of the larger type. All Aeroflot's 11-62 captains have now been confirmed in the highest grade under the new system of classi fication. Some 94 per cent of Tu-154 captains are in the top grade, but only about half the captains on other jet types have.made the highest grade. Reclassification of Yak-40 and An-24 captains is under way this year. • Aircrew training, selection and pro ficiency upgrading were discussed by Soviet and US officials during a sym posium at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University last month. Soviet officials and Federal Aviation Administration staff agreed to conduct joint research into aircrew and ATC selection and training. TriStar 200 certificated LOCKHEED'S extended-range L-1011- 200 TriStar has been granted Federal Aviation Administration certification, and the first aircraft will be delivered to Saudia this month. It is the first
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