Survey Of Replacement Aircraft For T.E.A.L.

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 13

Survey Of Replacement Aircraft For T.E.A.L.

"Th« Press” Special Service

AUCKLAND, January IL Captain J. R. McGrane, assistant-general manager of Tasman Airways, will leave Auckland next month to make a final survey of jet airliners under consideration as a replacement fleet for TJE.AX. He will be accompentod by one or two other techntcri experts. They wiH vend up to five weeks in England and the United States.

They will concentrate on the latest devetopmento in Boeing and Douglas atacradt

as well as the English roarengined VCIO. The final choice wiM be made from these three.

Their findings will be incorporated in the submissions of the company to -he Minuter of Civil Aviation, Mr McAlpine. The TJLAJL. board of dtrectom should ohm to a firm dsrition tote ta Marte or ta April With tea eomptetton of Mangers totarnatfanai Airport duo ta the teat quarter

of IM. TXAX must be ready to introduce jots at that date. The Government is expected to make its deciaton by the middie of this year to auow time for ordering the aircraft and for crew

board of directors had praaticahy made up its mind teat April when the Government suddenly announced that ttw opening of Mangere would be delayed for a year. Since then the Vickers VCIO has made its initial AM* and much more

psriormwe JU tfae beginning at Dee* unbar * tnan ot oMouiioai

from the Douglas Aircraft Company visited Now Zealand for trike wrih TXAX end the Government.

The DO ta uaad by 23 riritaes and, baa out an ■npreetive record, aa baa the Boring. The Boeing series of airliners are another prospect. Qantas already uses them. Proposed jot routes for TXA-L. W* be from Now ZmAmml IteMgti Ryboy and Singapore to flong Kong and poariHy Tokyo, and on the msthern eaatatn route to L<os Irmin tether through Fiji and Honolulu or direct throute Tahiti, with a Fiji-gamon-TaUti sxonecting service.