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AIR TRANSPORT This Boeing 747-300 will be delivered to UTA, the second customer for the type, in March. UTA ordered two CF6-50E2-powered 747-300s in August 1981. Each will have 69 economy seats up top Caribbean links with BCal LONDON Caribbean Airways will oper ate scheduled London Gatwick-Barbados passenger and cargo services with a Brit ish Caledonian Airways' DC- 10-30 flown by BCal crew from Sunday, May 1, under a new contract signed by the two carriers. The aircraft, in Caribbean Airways' livery, will initially operate a weekly service, increasing to twice-weekly from June 4. The aircraft will have a two-class layout— economy, seating 278 in a nine-abreast cabin, and a business class seating 20. Flight departures will be on Saturdays via Brussels and Sundays non-stop to Barba dos. Arrivals in the UK and Barbados connect with BCal's domestic and European services and its regional Caribbean operations. The BCal/Caribbean contract is initially for one year, but contains options to extend. It also covers joint marketing, technical assist ance, and training of Barba dian staff. Caribbean Airways is appointed general sales agent for BCal in the Eastern Caribbean, and BCal the GSA for Caribbean in the UK. British Caledonian manag ing director Alastair Pugh says the arrangement "marks the successful conclusion of efforts to find utilisation for DC-10-30 capacity which became surplus in the wake of the Falklands conflict and the enforced reduction of our South American network." He says BCal hopes to generate about £6 million in revenue from the contract. Caribbean Airways is studying the possibility of introducing services into the UK's Manchester Inter national Airport and Frank furt Main Airport. It has already won traffic rights into West Germany. If Caribbean does take up the two new routes, they will be operated in conjunction with BCal. Mexico's air traffic outlook grim MEXICO CITY More foreign carriers may well suspend flights to Mexico, warns the country's Bureau of Civil Aviation, citing Mexico's internal prob lems, a drop in ticket sales in the country, and high airline operating costs. Over the past few years Mexico has lost direct air communications with six nations. The United King dom, Australia, Israel, Belgium, Venezuela, and Canada have suspended Mexican operations. British Airways was the last to suspend flights, joining El Al, Qantas, Sabena, Air Canada and Viasa. When Braniff collapsed in May 1982 direct connections with major US cities were disrupted. Several years ago Mexico had 34 airlines operating on various routes into the coun try, 32 of them foreign and two Mexican. The Bureau of Civil Aviation now reports that there are only 27 carriers flying there. There has been growing unemployment within Mexico's air transport indus try, and the Bureau of Civil Aviation admits that it sees little sign of the situation improving in the near future. DK to market Romanian One-Elevens BUCHAREST New One-Elevens licence- built in Romania are to be marketed by DK Aviation international sales in an agreement reached in Bucha rest last week with chairman David King. The agreement, subject to formal contract, is with the Romanian aircraft industry's Foreign Trade Company ICE-CNA. It gives DK exclusive sales rights in Austria, Benelux, Cyprus, Ireland, Malta, Scandinavia, and West Germany. British Aerospace retains One-Eleven domestic sales rights in the UK. DK will also have rights in Pakistan and Bangladesh, and on the African continent in Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The deal allows DK to sell other products of the Romanian aircraft industry CNIAR. Three Romanian-built One-Eleven 560s will be on the market this year, and DK's job will be to provide the customer with technical stud ies and financial packages- including offset and commodity deals where appropriate—to the point of contract with Romania's ICE- CNA. David King says: "We are delighted to be associated with an aircraft for which the Romanians see a tremendous future marketing and tech nical development potential, and which is once again in full-scale production." In the last financial year DK has sold 737s, 727s, and an execu tive One-Eleven worth $40 million in the North Ameri can or Middle East markets. It is currently negotiating the sale of a 747 and a 727. Short hauls... Gulf Air has stopped flying to Hong Kong because of poor traffic. Instead a Gulf Air TriStar has been leased to the colony's carrier, Cathay Pacific, for one return flight from the UAE each week. The aircraft will continue to be manned by Gulf Air crew but will carry a CX flight designa tion. The Ulyanovsk Centre of Civil Aviation Training for the Comecon countries (set up in 1981) will begin training courses this year on the 11-86, in addition to the Tu-154, 11-76, 11-62, and others already in progress. Ulyanovsk started in 1950 after the Second World War 1 as the successor to the main 1 pre-war Aeroflot training school at Bataisk on the Sea * of Azov. South African Airways is ' to introduce its two new Boeing 747-300s on the Johannesburg-London route. The first will begin services in late April and the second will follow in May. A SAA spokes- * man says the new aircraft, which cost R91 million (£55 • 7 million) each, will burn 2 per ' cent less fuel than its 747s presently in service. SAA has not yet finalised seat layout for the 747-300, but at present plans to carry 420 passengers compared with 335 on its 747-200Bs, and 242 on the 747SP version. 508 FLIGHT International, 26 February 1983
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