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1983 - 0993.PDF
WORLD NEWS Canadair president resigns MONTREAL Frederick Kearns, the presi dent and chief executive officer of Canadair, has been given permission to take early retirement by the board of directors. He has held the post since 1965, and has been with thp company since 1949. Criticism of Canadair's management has been evident in recent weeks, and the manufacturer has some financial difficulties. Cana dair has asked the Canadian Government for a further $240 million to see it through to next spring, on top of the $200 million in Government aid it received last year. Si ace the Government bought Canadair from General Dynamics in 1974, it has provided about $1,350 million in guaranteed loans. More than 75 CL600 Chal lengers and two CL601s have been delivered. Latest figures on orders have not been re leased but the company says it has "... been examining the whole orderbook (and has) identified a number of soft order positions". Canadair is talking to these customers to establish if and when they will take aircraft. Order figures should be revealed to the Government this month. People Express licence awarded LONDON People Express Airlines was awarded a permit to operate low-fare scheduled services on the New York Newark- London Gatwick route by the UK Department of Trade only hours before the first flight was scheduled to takeoff. The DoT had been reluc tant to award the licence quickly because it was con cerned that, if other carriers dropped their fares to match PE's £99/$149 economy tar iff, the US Department of Jus tice might decide to take ac tion against them under the US anti-trust laws. It'is al ready taking action against British Airways and BCal for alleged collusion in fixing fares to drive Laker Airways out of business. A US delegation visited London last week to discuss the two countries' respective positions on fare-fixing under the UK-US Bermuda 2 bilat eral agreement. The break through on the People Ex press decision came because of what the UK DoT called "encouraging progress" in the discussions. Although the DoT would not reveal what had been agreed, it is clear that some assurance must have been given by the US Department of Justice that it is not likely to take ant-trust action against carriers if they are seen to drop their fares almost simultaneously. The UK Trade Department was at pains to point out after the talks that, despite the People Express breakthrough, no decisive agreement had been reached on the wider is sue of whether or not fare- fixing allowed by Bermuda 2 is actionable under the US anti-trust legislation. But, says the DoT, both sides are at least willing to reconsider their positions and talk again—the talks did not result in irrevo cable stalemate, as had been feared. Flight in France Almost the entire staff of Flight International is in Paris at some time during this week's Air Show, but we would like to take this opportunity of reminding our friends in the French aerospace industry that it is not just at Show time that we serve their needs. Flight Inter national has resident editorial and advertising staff in the French capital. Our Paris correspondent is Gilbert Sedborn who may be contacted on 825 5261. Our French advertisement sales operation is headed by Pierre Mussard who now operates from the new Flight International office at 18/20, Place de la Madeleine, Paris 75008; Tel 265 5014. Telex Number 215334F BISPRSF. The British Aerospace 125-800 took to the air for the first time at 12-45 p. m. on Thursday, May 26, with divisional chief test pilot Mike Goodfellow at the controls. The flight was made from the company's Chester facility, and it lasted 3hr 8min with the aircraft reaching 45,000ft ___ FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL NEXT WEEK Tornado is now oper ational with 9 Squadron, RAF. What do the crew think of it? What are its teething troubles? What is it like to fly on a low-level strike? Mike Gaines reports Flight's staff takes a closer look at some of the bigger stories from Paris. Tigershark's multimode radar, the General Rlectric APG-67, embodies the lat est in digital proces sing and microelectronics.; Graham Warwick reports. FLIGHT International, 4 June 1983 1619
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