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RIGHT Internotiono/, 26 Mar 1979 1715 Iberia survey finds passenger preference for Heathrow A SURVEY carried out by Spanish national airline Iberia shows that 70 per cent of its passengers prefer to fly from Heathrow rather than from London's second airport at Gatwick. Iberia will use the figures to back up its case to the British Government, which wants the airline to move its operations from Heathrow as part of the plan to relieve congestion at the capital's major airport. The survey shows that 70-7 per cent of UK residents flying with Iberia want to continue using Heath row, compared with 8-4 per cent who would not mind the move tot Gatwick. Of the remainder, 4-8 per cent said it did not matter to them. The remaining 16-1 per cent were "don't knows." Iberia UK manager Austin Gonzalez says: "The plain fact is that the vast majority of British travellers to Spain by scheduled airlines do not want to fly from Gatwick. They prefer Heath row. We believe that the views of these travellers should be respected." First A300 freighter on line ON May 17 the first A300 to be con figured for freight arrived at VFW's Lemwerder works for conversion. The aircraft has been ordered by Hapag- Lloyd and will be delivered in five months time aa a freighter-convertible A300C4. The aircraft comes directly from the Toulouse production line. In Lemwerder a six-metre section of the forward fuselage including the pas senger door will be removed. In its place will be fitted a new section, made by VFW-Fokker in its Eins- warden factory, containing the normal passenger door plus a freight door measuring 3-58m wide by 2-56m high. This will accept 88inX125in and 96in X125in pallets and 8X8X10ft con tainers. A300 engines can also be loaded. Two advantages are claimed for this method: it is cheaper, and it would take two years to incorporate these modifications from scratch at Toulouse on the production line. Conversion at VFW will take- five months, depending on customer requirements. VFW expects further freighter orders and will do all such conversions in its Lemwerder factory. Airport rates bill worries Scots GREATLY increased rating valuations at the British Airports Authority's four Scottish airports—Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Prestwick— and at Civil Aviation Authority aero dromes in the Highlands and Islands have been appealed against by both authorities. A CAA spokesman says: "The re valuations have produced such high figures at our Highlands and Islands aerodromes that they will lead to a huge increase in the rates bill. We budgeted for rates which doubled from £47,000 to £98,000 at six of these aerodromes—Inverness, Kirkwall, Wick, Benbecula, Islay and Tiree—but have now been presented with a demand for £465,000. "At Tiree, used by very few passen gers but providing an important social service, the demand for £60,000 is equivalent to £37 for each passenger using the facilities. We hope to agree with the assessors a new approach to airfield rating, but if discussions do not help we will have to fix prices according to costs. This will either mean raising charges to airlines or asking for an increase in government subsidies." The BAA is also negotiat ing for rate reductions. People . . . People. . . People . George Warde is to be senior v-p com mercial Airbus Industrie in succession to Dan Krook, who has returned to Fokker-VFW. Warde joined Airbus in 1975 as senior v-p customer services and became president of the com pany's North American subsidiaries in 1977. Airbus has, also -named Adam Brown v-p sales. Brown joined the company in 1973, becoming general sales manager, after 11 years with Hawker Siddeley Aviation in the sales engineering and sales departments • Ted Bates has been appointed com mercial manager and Tony Evans administrative manager of British Island Airways. Bates was with Air Malawi, American Express, British Caledonian and British United. Evans has been director of a computer com pany Q Clair Waterbury has retired after 22 years as Philippine Airlines' senior representative in Europe. He is succeeded by Henry Arnott, who will take over marketing and administration. Stuart Moles, formerly with Dunlop, becomes purchasing director for PAL. Hussein Kuaider has been appointed chairman and man aging director and Fuad Rizek vice- chairman of Syrian Arab Airlines • Mervyn Eyett has succeeded Capr Travers as Air Rhodesia general manager. Airliner market Singapore Airlines has now signed a firm order for six Airbus A300B4-200s and taken options on another six (four more than SIA's original re quirement, announced in April.) De liveries of aircraft on order, and options, will be spread between 1981- 85. A choice of engine has not yet been confirmed but is almost certain to be the Pratt & Whitney JT9D, which already powers the airline's 747s. Indian Airlines has converted two A300B2 options into firm orders and placed new options on another two, making its total buy eight orders plus three options. A300 sales now total 161 firm orders plus 52 options Q International Lease Finance Cor poration of Beverly Hills, California has ordered two Boeing 727s for delivery in December, at a cost of $32 million. Firm orders for the 727 now stand at 1,668. Indian Airlines has ordered seven Boeing 737s for de livery between mid-1980 and Septem ber 1981. The latest IAL order brings its 737 total to 23 and worldwide sales of the type to 706 Q Japan Air Lines has ordered five McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40s (powered by Pratt & Whit ney JT9D-59As) for delivery next winter. JAL's -40 orders now stand at 14 Q Trans-meridian Air Cargo is wet- leasing a Canadair CL-44 to Tropical Airlines of Zaire. The aircraft will be used to transport coffee from growing areas to Kinshasa. Short hauls . . . SAS recorded a 7 per cent traffic increase in revenue tonne-km for the first six months of its 1978-79 financial year. Load factor improved to 55-9 per cent from 54-9 per cent . . . Philippine Airlines has signed an air agreement with the People's Re public of China to become the first airline to serve both Peking and the Nationalist Chinese island of Taiwan .. . Flying Tiger has opened a non stop scheduled freight service be tween Seattle and New York five times each week . . . T/radewinds Airways, the Gatwick-based all-cargo airline, has operated the first civil flight into Kismayu, Somalia, an air field previously used for military oper ations . . . Lufthansa reports a record first quarter for 1979, with an 11 per cent increase in passengers and a 17 per cent increase in freight . . . Exeter Airport is to be supplied with a Cat 1 instrument landing system by the Decca Navigator Company.
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