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FLIGHT International, IS October *980 New operators for Boeing 737 Air Mo/to ond British charter airline Monarch are new operators of the Boeing 737. Air Malta starts 737 operations next month with an aircraft leased from Transavia Holland. Two more Transavia aircraft will join Air Malta's fleet in April. Luton-based charter carrier Monarch Airlines has received its first 737 from Boeing. Another arrives later in the winter, and it will be operated out of West Berlin for o West German tour operator New Cairo-based airline will start operations in December ARABIA-Arab International Airlines, a new Cairo-based venture founded in 1979 by Egyptian and Saudi investors with $15 million capital, will start operations on December 1. The project had originally been called Arab International Air. The fleet will initially consist of two Boeing 737-200s wet-leased from Maersk Air of Denmark—but Arabia will buy one of them after two months and the other after a year. A third 737 will be leased from Maersk on March 1, 1981, and bought after 12 months. Orders for delivery of three new 737s during the second half of 1982 have been placed, together with options on three more. Arabia will operate domestic schedules out of Cairo to Luxor, Alexandria, Port Said, Hurqhada and St Catherine. International schedules will fly between Cairo and Malta and Luxembourg twice-weekly. Egypt's civil aviation authorities have given the airline traffic rights to Rio de Janeiro via Dakar, Sydney via Singapore, and Seoul via Sharjah, but these operations will not begin until "phase two" of the carrier's plans, of which full details are not known, comes into action. Arabia also has plans to operate charter flights con necting Cairo, Alexandria and Luxor with European points. The airline plans to fly 4,500 charter hours and 3,000 scheduled flight hours during 1981. Post Office link has successful first year DELIVERY of mail to many parts of the UK has been speeded up by a Royal Mail airlift introduced last August. The Post Office reports that it is now flying about 250,000 letters a day. This will rise to about 400,000 a day during Christmas. The operation is centred on Liverpool's Speke Air port and letters are flown to and from many airports in the British Isles. The Post Office refers to the system as "The Spokes of Speke" and contracts individual operators to fly the service from each airport, involving a range of aircraft including Fokker F.27s, British Aerospace 748s, Piper Chief tains and Senecas, Pilatus Britten- Norman Islanders, Embraer Bandeir- antes and de Havilland Canada Twin Otters. The airlift costs about £2 million a year but this represents less than lp a letter. Stansted Airport may be included in the Southend-Birmingham- Speke link soon. British Air Ferries has been flying this route with Handley Page Heralds since its incep tion last November and usually carries about 500 mail bags a day on two flights. The Southend service is still temporary, But is likely to be made permanent in the near future. Scheduled airlines are used on some routes. • Letters destined for North Sea oil rigs and platforms are flown by British Airways Helicopters from Beccles. This British Air Ferries Herald operates a Royal Mail service between iis Southend base and Birmingham and Liverpool (Speke) Riyadh TriStar fire: eye witness report clashes with official statements SAUDI Arabian Civil Aviation Authorities have criticised the pilot of the Saudia TriStar for turning off the runway when it landed (Flight, last week, page 1407), rather than stop ping on the runway to allow emergency services immediate access. A British eyewitness reports that the aircraft did stop at the end of runway 01 after its landing run, and that it then shut down the two outboard engines (the tail engine was already shut down). According to this report, two fire vehicles attended the aircraft while it was stopped, but then the captain restarted the engines, carried out a 180° turn, and backtracked to a turn- off point where he cleared the runway and came to a halt with engines still running. A Saudia source in London confirms the backtrack report, but not the temporary engine shutdown. Official sources still decline to comment on the fact that air traffic control told the aircraft to leave the runway, or on the reason why this order was given. ¥Ut
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