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f LIGHT International, 22 May 1976 HAMMARSKJOLD WARNS ON DEREGULATION "FOR the first time in many years our regulatory pros pects seem somewhat brighter," said lata director-general Mr Knut Hammarskjold at the Fifth International World Airports conference earlier this month. "Key governments," he said, "are now in the process of intensive re-examination of the post-war rules prompted by the financial situation of air carriers in the new economic environment." Hammarskjold hoped that despite all the talk and flirta tion with deregulation, common sense would prevail—at least in the international field—and allow rational regula tion to continue. All carriers, he said, should be brought within the same policy system, discrimination should be eliminated, and a balance restored between capacity and market need. With the worst of the adverse economic trends over, consumer confidence was improving and international air traffic was expected to grow at about seven per cent per year into the next decade. But the lata head warned that even the best forecasts could be rendered meaningless overnight by political developments. He urged air carriers, airport authorities, manufacturers and government depart ments to co-ordinate their future forecasts and in doing so to assume that regulation would continue. TRISTAR SIMULATOR FOR CATHAY PACIFIC INSTALLATION of Cathay Pacific Airways' TriStar simu lator is under way at the airline's Hong Kong base. Manu facturer Redifon Flight Simulation of Crawley, England, claims that the simulator is the most advanced of its type available, comprising a four-axis-motion digital simulator and a Novoview visual attachment. Cathay Pacific expects the simulator to be debugged and ready for UK Civil Aviation Authority certification tests by mid-July. Upon the introduction of the simulator the carrier's Hong Kong ground training facilities will rank as the most advanced in South-East Asia. CPA operates two L-1011-100 extended-range TriStars, with a third due for delivery in September. UK AIRWORTHINESS CHARGES INCREASED THE Civil Aviation Authority has published details of the revised scheme of charges to be applied from July 7 (see Flight for May 1, page 1113). Initial issue and renewal of a certificate of airworthiness will cost £24 per 500kg of aircraft maximum weight (up from £15/500kg), and a utilisation surcharge is introduced for renewal of the certificates of aircraft weighing more than 5,700kg. The supply of copies of mandatory occurrence reports is also the subject of new charges. Full details of the increases are contained in the CAA's Official Record, Series Five, No 4. IRAN AIR GOES FOR NORTH ATLANTIC GROWTH IRAN AIR has added the 281-passenger Boeing 747SP to its fleet and now offers nine New York-Tehran flights a week. New York-Tehran is operated non-stop twice a week with SPs, while Paris and Cairo are served from New York via London with 707s. Guiv Vaziri, the carrier's North American manager, confidently predicts that this added capacity of the SPs will take Iran Air to sixth posi tion in the North Atlantic traffic rankings. Between May 29, 1975, when it started the North Atlantic service, and the end of the year, Iran Air carried 16.400 passengers on the Tehran-London-New York route, operating at a load factor of over 90 per cent in the peak season and averaging 74 per cent for the year. About 80 per cent of the traffic travelled between New York and Tehran and about 75 per cent of the passengers were Iranian nationals. Non-stop SP flights to Tehran will take llhr 15min, four hours less than the competing Pan Am service. Unlike Pan Am, which has still to agree on the size of crew for long non-stops, Iran Air expects no problems with its 90 per cent Iranian, non-unionised crews. New York-Tehran will be flown with the usual flight crew of continued overleaf 1343 Airliner market Airbus Industrie announces the sale of an A300B4 to Transavia. It will be delivered about this time next year. As a stopgap Airbus has leased the ex-Air Siam A300B2 to Transavia and the aircraft is already in service. When Transavia's own aircraft is delivered the B2 will be re turned to Airbus and it will be later delivered to Air Inter. The Transavia/TEA deal covering the lease by Transavia of the TEA Holland A300B4 has not been consummated. It is still possible that Transavia's B4 will be delivered as a convertible B4-FC, with a 136in-wide main-deck freight door—Airbus is prepared to launch this variant on a single order. (The B4-FC should not be confused with the pro posed A300C and A300F convertible and pure freighter, with 267in-wide doors.) The undisclosed holder of four A300 options is South African Airways • Air Malta is using a Boeing 727-100 leased from World Airways • Aviaco has taken delivery of the first of four McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30CFs • British Airways is now operating 19 Boeing 747s, having taken delivery of its own 18th air craft and operating one aircraft on lease from Aer Lingus O Capitol International Airways has bought three DC-8-61S from Eastern Airlines, for delivery starting in June or July D CSA Czech Airlines intends to acquire five more Yakovlev Yak-40s and further Il-62s • Some airlines have told de Haviiland Canada that they would prefer a stretched Dash 7 with about 60 seats and more fuel, but the company says it has no plans to offer such a version as yet • Delta Air Lines has confirmed options on eight Boeing 727s and ordered 13 more. The earlier optioned aircraft will be delivered this year and the new order between May next year and November 1978. Delta has agreed to sell its last 19 McDonnell Douglas DC-8-51s (medium-range aircraft) to brokers FBA Aircraft of Geneva and Frederick B. Ayer & Associates of New York. The last five of the DC-8s will be retired from the Delta fleet in the second and third quarters of next year fj Fokker-VFW is negotiating finance for a substantial F.28 repeat order within Europe, with agreement expected soon • LAV Aeropostal is reported to have ordered two more Hawker Siddeley HS.748-2As. HSA declines to confirm whether these are the two sales it records to an "undis closed customer" • Olympic Airways' stopgap until 737s are delivered is a pair of 727s, not B.CAL One-Elevens as reported in this column on April 17 • Pacific Southwest Airlines has discussed with Air Siam. the possibility of selling some or all of its Lockheed TriStars to the Far East airline. Air Siam has proposed to operate an Air Ceylon service to Europe, using the TriStars • The 727 which World Airways leased to Yemen Airways was in fact recently acquired by World from Sabena. The Belgian flag carrier has now sold all its 727s. It has also sold at least one (and possibly three) of its Caravelles to Catair D Trans Florida Airlines has sold the last two operational Lockheed 049 Constellations to Aerovias Quis- queyana of Santo Domingo • VFW-Fokker does not expect to sell VFW 614s to Air Alpes for the time being, but the airline has acquired a second F.27 from Belgian Aerolease. The manufacturers hope that the US market will become more receptive to the 614 before long, with possible changes to the Part 298 regulations and rises in commuter fares • Transcarga's DC-8-55F has been sold, as have two of Viasa's DC-8s • Western Airlines has exercised an option on a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10.
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