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1949
1949 - 0011.PDF
JANUARY 6TH, 1949 FLIGHT Future Pacific Services : Report from Trans- Canada A irlines ; Airwork Contract with Pakistan PACIFIC CARRIER: First of the four DC-6 aircraft for British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines. Sleeping accommodation will be available on this service which will probably open in March. CIVIL AVMWH B.E.A.-P.A.W.A. BOOKING AGREEMENT BRITISH EUROPEAN AIRWAYS CORPORATION andPan American World Airways have announced an agreement whereby P.A.W.A. are able to confirm immediate bookingson B.E.A. flights to Paris, Amsterdam, Geneva, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Marseilles, Rome and Athens. The reservationsystem, known as " Sell and Report," enables any P.A.W.A. agent in the United States to sell B.E.A. space and reportthe sale to B E.A. for periods ranging from 30 days to seven days before the flight or until the flight is filled. Immediateconfirmation is restricted to two seats and further seats require a space request. The confirmation dead-line is seven days onreturn flights from London to Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Stockholm, 14 days to Geneva and 30 days to Marseilles,Rome and Athens. SINGAPORE AIRPORT THE R.A.F. airfield at Tengah, twelve miles north ofSingapore, is to be developed into an international airport for use jointly by civil airlines and the R.A.F. The originalplan was to develop Changi, built by British prisoners of the Japanese, but construction was suspended on account of shift-ing sub-soil. It will be completed, however, as a service airfield. It is understood that Singapore will contribute^750,000 sterling towards the cost of the new airfield and the British Government will bear most of the remainder. AUSTRALIAN AIRLINE PROFIT TT was recently announced by the Managing Director of-"• Qantas Empire Airways, Mr. Hudson Fysh, that for the year ended March 31st, 10,48, the nationalized airline made aprofit of ^79,900, an increase of over £14,000 over the previous year. In accordance with the company's policy of conservingthe financial position, a 5 per cent dividend was declared, amounting to about £26,140, less than one-third of the profits.Among future plans, the Company hopes to open routes to Hong Kong, and to Johannesburg if the South AfricanGovernment agrees to the proposal. TRANS-PACIFIC PREPARATIONSB RITISH COMMONWEALTH PACIFIC AIRLINES, Ltd.,are attempting to gain a lead over competitors on the Pacific route by purchasing four long range Douglas DC-6s.The new aircraft are expected to start operations between Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island, Fiji andSydney or Auckland by March this year. The B.C.P.A. DC-6s are 48-seaters carrying a crew of nine, including threepilots, a flight engineer, radio operator, navigator, purser and two stewardesses. For night travelling the seats may beconverted quickly into sleeping berths and with more berths concealed in the ceiling of the cabin 37 bunks will be avail-able. The second delivery flight from, San Francisco to c 11 Sydney took 26 hours 39 minutes as compared with the cur-rent Skymaster schedules of 38 flying hours. Schedules should thus be reduced by at least a day on the 8,000 milejourney. The fare from the United States to Australia will be about £150- The yearly seating accommodation across thePacific will be about 13,000 by the three companies. B.C.P.A., Canadian Pacific Airlines with Canadair Fours starting mid-summer, and Pan American Airways who have recently announced that Stratocruisers will be operated in 1949. It isunderstood they will operate between America and Honolulu until the runways at Kingsford Smith Airport, Sydney, arelong enough, services will then be extended. Pan American have ordered twenty Stratocruisers for the Atlantic and Pacific-Alaskan Divisions. T.C.A. EXPANSION IN 1948B Y far the most significant development of the year forTrans-Canada Airlines was the introduction of 20 large North Star aircraft on domestic and overseas routes. In areview of the year, Mr. G. R. McGregor, President of the airline, revealed that the seating capacity of the fleet had beenincreased by 50 per cent and another 5,000 miles had been added to T.C.A. routes bringing the total from 11,000 up tc16,000 miles. During T948 some 20,000,000 revenue miles were flown which is an increase of 2,000,000 over the previousyear. Air cargo ton-mileage increased by iio per cent, and mail ton-mileage was increased by 67 per cent as the resultof a new policy of carrying first class mail by air at unchanged postal rates. Commonly called "all-up" mail, tfiis serviceprovides for the carriage of all letters in Canada, weighing an ounce or less. North Stars were introduced on trans-Con-tinental services on June 1st, flying two round trips daily be- tween Montreal and Vancouver. Some ol the latest type wereadded to the North Atlantic fleet which permitted two flights daily between Canada and the U.K., as well as marry charterflights. In all T.C.A. flew the Atlantic 1,400 times on revenue services during the year. With the introduction of North Stars, the DC-3 fleet wasdiverted to service on Provincial routes. Services were opened to Bermuda on May 1st with two flights a week from Torontoand Montreal and later a third flight was added. Services to the British West Indies started in December, flying fromMontreal to Toronto, Nassau, Kingston and Port-of-Spain, twice a week, one finishing at Jamaica and the other continuingto Trinidad. Although it is thought that traffic will be mostly with holidaymakers, and consequently seasonal, the routetouches areas of agricultural and industrial significance to Canada. On domestic services in 1948 T.C.A. carried 537,000passengers, 2,540 tons of mail and 1,665 tons of cargo. Over- seas flights accommodated 31,300 passengers, 99J tons of mailand 290 tons of cargo. In addition, 175 west-bound crossings of the Atlantic were made with immigrants, and in JuneT.C.A. flew six round flights a day over the Rockies to move 9,000 persons and 600,000 lb of food to and from British
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