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SUBSIDY FOR BRITISH AIRWAYS.
A SUBSIDY has been promised for It the recently inaugurated CroydonMalmo daily service of British Airways, Ltd., and a mail contract will almost certainly be granted when regularity has been proved.
The news has been expected since October, when Sir Eric Geddes stated at the Imperial Airways annual meeting that, as regards routes north of London-Berlin, the Government had asked to be relieved of its undertaking to subsidize no European lines other than those of Imperial Airways.
Two lines of policy are marked by the new move. The first is that Imperial Airways is not to be the only subsidized British company, the second is that Government encouragement is not to be limited to mail contracts, which may involve wasteful competition.
PLANS FOR GLASGOWINVERNESS SERVICE.
SUBJECT to early completion of radio stations, Highland Airways, Ltd., is planning to extend its present Aberdeen Kirkwall and InvernessKirkwall services to Shetland, and its Eirkwall-Inverness line to Glasgow. After the Kirkwall-Aberdeen machine has returned to Kirkwall it will go on to Suinburgh Head, Shetland, leaving at 3 p.m., getting there at 3.50 p.m., and arriving back at Kirk-waIl at 4.50 p.m.
A Dragon Rapide will be kept at Renfrew and will leave there at 9 a.m., reaching Inverness at 10.10 a.m. Until a landing ground, and ,radio station at Stornoway have been arranged, this machine will not be able to continue through to the Isle of Lewis.
DEVELOPMENTS AT CARLISLE.
!TWO services are Using the Carlisle J. municipal aerodrome regularly, at present, and more are expected this summer. The eorporation has arranged for the levelling and draining to be completed early in April; the work is now in progress.
So many calls have been made for a charter service based at Carlisle that the Border Flying Club, Ltd., which is the corporation's tenant on the aerodrome, is making arrangements to provide a machine suitable for this work.
IMPROVED WINTER TRAFFIC AT HESTON.
AA IRCRAFT arrivals and departures at Heston (excluding the flying school) totalled 1,619 in January this year, which is 31 per cent. up Oft the figure for January, 1935, in spite of particularly bad weather. At first the increase might be thought due to British Airways, Ltd., moving its base from Essex Airport to Heston, but the fact that 41 per cent. of ,the traffic was ecimmercial, compared with 42 per cent, a year ago, shows that traffic growth is steady and general.
FOREIGN AIR LETTERS -AT SPECIAL RATES.
I T is expected that British • Airways, Ltd. (the combine which includes Hillman's Airways, Ltd., and United Airways, Ltd.)., wiil from , about March 2, carry all the first-class mails .to Scandinavia without surcharge. This will be the first foreign air mail to go at the 2ici, rate, and the quantities are likely to be about 700 lb. daily on three days per week and 1,000 lb. daily on the other three week-days, with no service on Sundays.
The southbound mail will continue to be carried by the foreign companies; and British Airways, Ltd., will not carry mails to their stopping places.
AN AERODROME FOR WEST WALES.
TAir Ministry has informed Haverfordwest Council (Pembrokeshire) that the Park House site tentatively chosen for the municipal. aerodrome is not quite suitable, but that the alternative site selected at 'Withyhush is better.
_ The council has decided thata full report on the proposed aerodrome at Withybush shall be presented.
HESTON BEACON TESTED.
THE Lorenz ultra-short-wave blind approach beacon at Heston Airport, the first in England, is now in complete working order. It was tested last Friday by a large Junkers machine.