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FLIGHT International, 12 May 1979 1547 Caledonian reports best results THE Caledonian Airways group, whiah includes British Caledonian Airways, reports profits of £12-2 mil lion before tax for 1978—55 per cent up on the previous year and its best performance since the airline's in ception in 1970. The profits have been made despite a £3-5 million loss on delayed over seas currency remittances, and extra expenses of £1 million from air traffic control disputes. The overseas remit tance problem was mast severe in Africa due to a lack of foreign cur rency, an imbalance which prompted the authorities there to delay sterling remittances against a depreciating local currency. The losses in some cases were as much as 50 per cent of the original fare paid, and group chairman Adam Thomson says that even more care ful provision for such losses will be made in future. The current year is likely to prove more difficult, Thomson forecasts. This year's profits, to the end of October, will be similar, indicating little or no growth. On new equipment, Thomson says that progress towards the European A310 [has been slowed by the CAA block on the airline's route to Sweden, but that when a 200-seater becomes necessary the A310 can be expected to be the front-runner. The airline plans to press ahead with its application to operate the one remaining unsold Britislnassembled Concorde, and the latest operational study will be ready for presentation to the government in a couple of weeks. Thomson says that tihe 80:20 pro fit split on Concorde between British Airways and the government at no capital cost would not necessarily be appropriate for B.CAL, The airline lost £2 million last year on its routes between London and Glasgow and Edinburgh, but Thomson indicates that there are no plans to abandon or curtail the services. He believes that the answer to the problem lies in the development of Gatwick as an international airport to a point where its interline business matches that of Heathrow. With many new foreign airlines moving to Gat wick, B.CAL believes that this will happen. People . . . People . . . People . . . THE following air-transport industry appointments have been notified to Flight: Aida Maluta, director market ing information and administration, Flying Tiger • William Clague, re gional director New Zealand, Conti nental • Carlos Mario Gutierrez, manager international division, Aero- mexico • Ronald E. McWilliams, director of Washington office, Boeing • Trevor Went, group accountant Tyne and Wear County Council, is appoin ted assistant director (administration and finance) North-East Regional Airport Committee Q Richard Funk, senior vice-president for maintenance and engineering, World Airways D Kenneth Chavkin, director route de velopment, Western Airlines • John Begg, commercial and operations man ager, Peregrine Air Services, Aber deen • Dr Edgar M. Cortright, presi dent Lockheed-California, in succession to Willis M. Hawkins who retires, but will stay on as senior, v-p aircraft until the end of the year Q Elias C. Rodriguez, administrative law judge, Civil Aeronautics Board O Seth E. Schofield, senior v-p maintenance and engineering, William E. Haberkirn, v-p personnel and industrial relations, Robert A. Nance, director sales plan ning, Allegheny • Tom Fennessy, manager passenger sales UK for TWA is appointed general manager for the airline at Cincinnati Q James R. Leonard to be v-p sales and market ing, Aeroamerica • C. Sekawalor is sales manager, Capt J. Ginns general manager, P. Okine finance director, Gemini Air Transport (Ghana) • Capt A. H. Larkman is operations director and Capt R. E. Atkins is chief pilot, Dan-Air. Short hauls . . . Short hauls . Davies and Newman Holdings, oper ator of Dan-Air, shipbroker and ships agent, reports an operating profit of £2-3 million for 1978 compared with £937,000 the previous year . . . the 1979 international airports conference of the Airports Operators' Council International is to be held from June 18-22 at the Hamburg Congress Cen trum, West Germany . . . SAS is to operate a daily service between Gat wick and Copenhagen starting June 1 . . . the sixth world airports conference takes place at the Cafe Royal, London, from June 5 -7, with the theme "air ports for the community" . . . Braniff reports net earnings of $8 million during the first quarter of the year, compared with $8-8 million for the same period in 1978 . . . Wardair had consolidated net earnings of $5-4 million for 1978, compared with $3-8 million in 1977 . . . FAA is to hold a seminar in Washington on May 22 and 23 on the use of non-destructive test methods for evaluating and plan ning the rehabilitation of aircraft pavements . . . Mexicana Airlines made a net profit of $12 million for 1978 compared with $8 million the previous year. BMA Belfast plans outlined BRITISH Midland has completed negotiations to acquire two more DC-9s, which it would need to operate seven flights daily in each direction if its application to compete with British Airways on Heathrow-Belfast is granted by the CAA, BMA chairman Michael Bishop has announced in Belfast. The airline plans to time its flights to alternate with those of the British Airways Shuttle, so giving travellers hourly flights to and from Belfast. But at £65, its fare would be £5 lower than that of British Airways, while there would be catering and bar ser vice aboard. The CAA public hearing for BMA's application will be held in Belfast on May 23 and 24. Bishop referred to recent sugges tions by British Airways executives in Ulster that if BMA is licensed to com pete on the Heathrow-Belfast route, the state carrier would have to con sider surrendering some of the ser vices it operates between Northern Ireland and provincial centres in Britain. He said that BMA would be happy to take up any such domestic routes relinquished by British Airways, Since taking over Belfast-Liverpool from British Airways six months ago his airline had increased traffic threefold, and the route was expected to show a profit this year. Ziegler spells out Airbus priorities EUROPE should develop a 120/130- seat narrow-bodied airliner in the "Jet 1/F.29" class, says Henri Ziegler (former president of Aerospatiale) rather than the 160/180-seat Jet 2, because a narrow-body in this capacity class cannot compete on passenger appeal with wide-bodies such as the A310 and Boeing 767. For the wide- body market, Ziegler, who was addressing the European a.g.m. of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots at Bristol, urges Airbus to press ahead with the long-range A300 and the Bll, with four engines. Aerospace unions merger move A DELEGATE conference of the British Aerospace. Staffs Association has voted overwhelmingly for a trans fer to the Engineers and Managers Association (EMA), but a final deci sion will depend on a ballot of the association's 5,000 members. At the BAe Warton factory, the BAC Profes sional Staffs Association, with 450 members, voted heavily in favour of amalgamation with the EMA.
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