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Air Transport News
Page 98
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SCANDINAVIAN DETAILS SETTLED.
WHEN Major J. R. McCrindle, managing director of British Airways, Ltd., was in Scandinavia, a week or two ago, be arranged that, although his company will run in direct competition with the national air lines of Holland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, the national Swedish, Danish and German companies will act as general agents at Malmo. Copenhagen and
Hamburg respectively. •
British Airways, Ltd., expects to start, on February 17, with one service daily each way, leaving Essex Airport at 9 a.m., calling at Amsterdam at 11 a.m., Hamburg at 1.25 p.m., Copenhagen at 3.20 p.m., and reaching Malmo at 3.45 p.m. The homeward machine will leave Malmo at 8.30 a.m. and arrive at Essex Airport at 3.15 p.m.
The service will extend to Stockholm, probably in May. The extra night service which British Airways, Ltd., hopes to start in the summer, also will carry passengers and mail.
TRIAL SERVICE TO LISBON.
ON February 1-2, one of the Fokker 17.12 machines which Crilly Airways, Ltd., has bought from the Royal Netherlands Air Lines, was flown with a party of 11 persons to Madrid and Lisbon, to try this type of machine over the route of the air service which the company will shortly start. The trip would have been made in ore day, but for the flooded state of .Madrid airport. All Continental aliports have recently suffered from the effects of rain.
The' Fokkers, which are being used until faster machines can be delivered, c44 will leave Croydon at 6 a.m. and Lisbon (Cintra) at S a.m. daily, reaching their destinations at 5.30 p.m, and 7.30 p.m. respectively. The fares will be £21 single and £.37 10s. return. The service will start in two or three weeks.
CONCESSION BY RAILWAYS.
.THE British railways have decided 1 that the holders of ordinary and trader season tickets issued by any railway company will be entitled to 10 per cent, reduction when travelling by air (within the area of availability of their railway season tickets) on the routes of Railway Air Services, Ltd., Channel Islands Airways, Ltd., and on the London-Isle of Wight line run jointly by R.A.S. and Spartan Air Lines, Ltd.
LICENSING FOR AIR SERVICES.
CIAILISE 5 of the Air Navigation Bill, which the Government introduced in the House of Commons on December 19, and the text of which was published on January 31, seeks to permit the Air Ministry to regulate air-transport services and other commercial flying by licence, under Order in ('.ouncil, when and insofar as such regulation may become desirable. OVER 200 DELEGATES AT AIRPORTS CONFERENCE. OVER 200 delegates attended the ‘../conference of the Aerodrome Owners Association (an off-shoot of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors), in London, from January 30February I. In all, 103 organizations were repre2ented, including 39 municipalities and seven air-transport companies.
Three papers were read. Major R. H. S. Mealing, of the Air Ministry, spoke of modern airport design and explained that machines with high wing loading can carry much more pay-load if given long runways for taking off. In the discussion, aircraft constructors were criticized for building aircraft which need big landing areas and the Air Ministry was criticized for failing to warn municipalities in good time.
Major H. Hamer, Hull city engineer, read a paper on the problem of dividing aerodrome cost between iaational and local bodies, and suggested that a 50per-cent. grant of capital and maintenance cost should be made by the Government.
Mr. Roderick Denman, of Airwork, Ltd., explained aerodrome wireless equipment, especially the ultra-shortwave beacon for landing in fog.
K.L.M. AND B.C.A. CO-OPERATE.
THE K.L.M. service from Amsterdam 1 to Liverpool, which, as announced last week, will, in a few months, be re-opened, will be worked in co-operation with British Continental Airways, Ltd. There will be one departure daily each way and the route will he via Doncaster, instead of Hull.