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The styling of Overseas National tends to emphasise the length of this -63F—one of the fully stretched DCSs in the 60 Series, generation big jets, typified by the L-IOII and DC-IO, are fortunately being stretched in another dimension The new- AIR TRANSPORT SAA TO NEW YORK A WEEKLY service by way of Rio de Janeiro to New York will be started by South African Airways on February 28, 1969. The permission granted by the USA has ended a long period of negotiation between the two countries. At the same time it opens the field for further wrangles, because several US airlines want reciprocal rights or extra frequencies to South Africa. The service will probably use Luanda, Angola, as the departure point for the South Atlantic crossing. BEA WANTS ORLY BY the middle of last week there had been no weakening of the French authorities' resistance to the request by the Board of Trade for greater use by BEA of Orly Airport, Paris. Under the present temporary agreement, which ends on January 6, BEA has been, since last April, permitted to use Orly for up to five London-Paris services a day. Air France operates all services into and out of Orly and BEA has been finding, on a pooled revenue arrangement, that it cannot maintain a com petitive position when all major connections, including those on Air Inter's domestic services, are made from Orly. "All we are seeking," said BEA last week, "is equal opportunity. Orly is the more popular airport. The major international connec tions are there and more businessmen want to use it." The impasse may lead to retaliation, with Air France being forced to transfer a proportion of the services from Heathrow to Gatwick, unless some concession is offered before January 6. LUTON TO LONDON FROM April 1 Autair International will transfer all scheduled services from Luton to Heathrow Airport, where the airline's Tees-side-London service is already based. The other services involved—all operated by Handley Page Heralds—are those to and from Dundee, Hull, Blackpool and Carlisle. Passenger and cargo handling will be looked after by BEA and Autair will use BEA's facilities at the West London Air Terminal. Luton will continue to be Autair's main base for inclusive-tour operations and passengers on these flights will continue to use the airline's North London Air Terminal at 202-204 Finchley Road, London NW3. "CANNES WAS NO FAILURE" THE Cannes traffic conference of IATA should not be viewed as a failure, the association's director-general, Mr Knut Hammarskjold, said at a meeting of the International Congress and Convention Association in Rio de Janeiro recently. The subjects under discussion were too involved to be digested at the one session. He indicated that LATA would within the next few months introduce a tariff structure to deal with the mass- travel market. (The association is understood to be nearer to acceptance of a bulk-fare structure as a result of a recent Geneva working party—see Flight for December 12, page 965.) Mr Hammarskjold also put in a plea for a lightening of the taxation burden on airlines, which could prove a major threat to their development. Government charges, he said, amounted to $400 million (£167 million) in 1967—5.5 per cent of airlines' total revenue, a percentage which was increasing. New Singapore Charter Company A new company, Singapore Air Services, has started operations with three Hunting-Percival Prince 3s; a Cessna 337 will also be added to the fleet shortly. 707s for Iran Air Two Boeing 707-320Cs have been ordered by Iran National Airlines Corporation (Iran Air) for delivery early in 1970. The cost, including spares, is about $23 million (£10.5 million). West African Merger Plans have been announced for a merger of Ghana Airways and Nigeria Airways to form Air West Africa. The merger, forecast by Sensor in Flight for November 7, page 727, will take place in the spring. A formal agreement between the two Governments concerned is reported to be nearly complete. Islanders in Canada The Phaega Corporation of Ottawa is now the distributor for the Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander in eastern Canada following an agreement with the Jonas Aircraft Co of New York, distributor for the Western Hemi sphere. An initial order for six Islanders has been placed and Phaega expect to sell at least 15 during the next 18 months. Date for Edwards Although the report of the Edwards Com mittee is, as already reported, due to be in the hands of the Board of Trade by the end of March next year, Sir Ronald Edwards "is aiming at the earliest possible moment consistent widi a full and complete report." This was stated in the House of Commons by Mr William Rodgers, Minister of State, BoT. New Zealand Re-shuffle The Civil Aviation Department in New Zealand no longer exists as such. Both this and the Department of Transport have become divisions of the recently formed Ministry of Transport. Mr J. B. Gordon, previously Minister of Civil Aviation, has resigned his aviation portfolio and taken over those of transport and railways. The Pan American Accident While on the approach to Maiquetia Airport, Caracas, Venezuela, on the late evening of December 12, a Pan American Boeing 707-320B (N494PA) crashed into the sea about 10 miles from its destination. AH on board, 42 passengers and nine crew members, were killed. The 707, which is reported to have "exploded" and was on fire before striking the water, was operating a normal non-stop service from J. F. Kennedy New York to Caracas.
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