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1978
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94 FLIGHT International, 14 January 1978 Stainton takes over at British Airways ROSS STAINTON has replaced Sir Frank McFadzean. as chief executive of British Airways. Sir Frank will re main as chairman, of the airline, but on medical advice he will work only part-time. Stainton has been acting as chief executive since' Sir Frank's heart attack last September, and the new management structure came as no surprise when it was announced on December 30 by Trade Secretary Edmund Dell. Stainton's deputy, director of com mercial operations Roy Watts, is to take over responsibility for finance and planning. The new director of commercial operations is to be Gerry Draper, who has been head of the airline's marketing and sales division since 1973 and was appointed market ing director in April last year. Together with newly appointed PRATT & WHITNEY'S JT9D-59A is scheduled to fly on an Airbus A300 in November. Flight-testing and certifi cation are expected to take three to four months. No aircraft has yet been allocated to the test programme, but the engine is likely to fly on the first JT9D- powered A300 to be ordered. Scandi- CAA appointments THE BRITISH Department of Trade has appointed Mr Michael Vivian to serve for a further two years, from December 22, 1977, as the Civil Avia tion Authority's group director of safety services. Mr Kenneth Winckles, group finance director of the Hill Samuel Group, has been appointed as a part-time CAA board member for a three-year term. More traffic at Paris airports TRAFFIC figures for 1977 released by Aero-port de Paris (ADP) show con tinued growth at the three airports run by the agency. Passenger traffic through Orly, Charles de Gaulle and Le Bourget increased by eight per cent compared with 1976, and freight traffic by 11-4 per cent. Paris retains its position after London as Europe's second most important destination for passengers, and its third place for freight after London and Frankfurt. The trend towards larger aircraft is still very marked, with an increase of only 1-4 per cent in aircraft move ments despite the stronger growth in traffic. Average number of passengers per aircraft movement was 77, com pared with 72 a year ago. management services director Peter Hermon, Draper has been appointed to the main board of British Airways in the latest reshuffle. British Airways senior manage ment is now almost completely identi fied with the main board, which is responsible directly to the Depart ment of Trade. Only two of the air line's executive board members are not members of the main board. In the years immediately following the merger of British Overseas Airways Corporation, British European Air ways and -the smaller regional car riers, the main board served as a "holding company" with little influ ence over management or operations. The new structure reflects few of the traditional divisions within the air line. Sir Frank was appointed chairman navian Airline System is still evaluat ing the JT9D against the General Electric CF6, and is expected to announce its choice of engine within the next few months. Iran Air, which has not yet firmly ordered the A300, is also considering the JT9D. The first SAS aircraft are B2s, while Iran Air is interested in the "hot-and-high" of British Airways in January 1976 and took over the post full-time in July of that year. The appointment of Sir Frank, an outsider with no airline experience, caused some surprise, but he quickly made it clear that he was ready to make the major changes needed to cope with the airline's prob lems of overmanning, divisional rivalry and poor labour relations. Under his rule as chairman and chief executive the divisions were abolished and the airline was set on a coursei of staff reduction through natural wast age. There is no doubt, however, that the extreme stress of last summer, caused by the British Airways engineers' dispute, the ATC assistants' strike and the structural failures in the Trident fleet, were largely res ponsible for Sir Frank's recent ill- health. JT9D-powered A300 to fly this year Among the world's younger airlines are Air Mauritius, which is wet-leasing a 707-436 from British Airtours, and Belize Airways with a Boeing 720 IMS ffif#ll!?«!»St i •MO . l B2K for operations out of Tehran. Design work on the JT9D installa tion for the A300 is continuing; changes are relatively minor and are mostly confined to the pylon and in strumentation. The nacelle will be basically the same as the common design produced by the Rohr Corpora tion for the DC-10-40 and 747-200. uritius,
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