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AIR TRANSPORT NewHK airport decision postponed Hong Kong Government offi cials have delayed until 1984 their decision on whether to replace the existing Kai Tak Airport and build a new one at Chep Lap Kok on north Lantao. According to officials the project would cost an esti mated $40,000 million, and Hong Kong's businessmen want to see the colony's future relationship with China clearly defined before public funds are put into such an expensive and ambi tious project. Britain's lease of the majority of Hong Kong's territory will expire in about 15 years. Undercapacity at Kai Tak Airport is a continuing prob lem and, maintains Hong Kong's director of aviation Brian Keep, there is a high probability that there will be a serious Shortage of capa city before 1990. As the planned time to build a replacement airport is seven to ten years, it is likely that air traffic restrictions would have to be introduced. The colony's aviation department is currently carrying out a review to give Government policy-makers the most up-to-date forecast before any final decision is made. A plan is also being drawn up to extend the number of terminal facilities to boost capacity at Kai Tak from the current eight million to 12 million passen gers a year. Martinair's second Super 80 McDonnell Douglas has won its third DC-9 Super 80 order in three weeks. The latest order is from Holland's charter airline, Martinair, which has purchased a DC-9-82. Martinair already has one Super 80 on order, which should be delivered in Feb ruary 1983, with the second following in April. The new aircraft will replace DC-9-30s. Boeing exhibited this 757—the fifth for Eastern—to airlines in several south-east Asian coun tries during a recent sales tour. The aircraft is seen on display in the Japan Air Lines maintenance centre at Tokyo's Narita International Airport Government saves TAA from collapse SYDNEY State-owned Trans-Australian Airlines would now have ceased operations if its Federal Government had not accepted responsibility for an A$200 million (£111 mil lion) deficiency in its staff superannuation fund, accord ing to an airline official. TAA's finance manager Spencer Park told a Senate committee that the airline ignored a private actuary's advice to increase its contri butions to the fund because it assumed that the Federal Government would "ulti mately bale it out". The air line had not seriously con sidered increasing fares or taking other measures to cover the deficiency, he said, because that would have given competitor Ansett Air lines a windfall profit under the provisions of the two- airline agreement. The private actuary recom mended that TAA increase its salary contributions by about 58 per cent in 1976 to make up a £53 million deficit in the airline's Comanon- wealth Superannuation Fund. But TAA continues to contri bute at a rate of 20 per cent. According to Park the airline has suffered problems ever since the indexation of pensions became automatic in 1973, and when the actu ary began recommending rates of contribution that would provide for the pen sion increase. "Those levels of contributions were totally beyond TAA's capabilities." • East-West Developments, the new owner of East West Ainlines Csee Flight, last week, page 651) has im posed a 5-2 per cent in crease on all fares in an attempt to get the airline back to profitability. Short hauls . . . Air Europe has submitted an application to the UK Civil Aviation Authority to operate scheduled services to Gib raltar from both London Gatwick and Manchester International Airports. The airline is seeking a thrice- weekly service from Gatwick and a weekly service from Manchester. British Atlantic Airways, the carrier planning direct flights to the Falklands, has applied to the Civil Aviation Authority to run a twice- weekly scheduled service between London Gatwick and New York. The airline pro poses a one-way, one class fare of £250 and would operate the route with DC-10-30s. Qantas and Air Pacific, the Fijiian national carrier, have signed a five-year agreement to share capacity on Qantas' services between Australia and Nadi. The agreement follows the success of the partnership on the Australian carrier's weekly Melbourne-Nadi ser vice and its four-times-a- week service between Sydney and Nadi. Both airlines are confident their partnership will extend well beyond 1987, when this new agreement expires. Air Zimbabwe pilots have joined a training course with Olympic Aviation, subsidiary company of Olympic Air ways, as part of a pro gramme sponsored by the Greek Government. Six Air Zimbabwe pilots will be trained in air and ground operations over 18 months, and each should achieve 800hr in flight training experience. FLIGHT International, 11 September 1982 763
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