MORE OPTIMISTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 128, 27 November 1944, Page 6

MORE OPTIMISTIC

AIR TALKS PROSPECTS

NEW YORK, Nov. 25,

Blanks in the draft air transport plan which was proposed at the Chicago aviation conference by Britain, Canada, and the United States - last Tuesday have now been filled in by separate documents from the British and American delegates. They are on lines so close together that only one important point of controversy has apparently remained.

This is the right to pick up and discharge traffic in countries other than the home and terminus countries of the air lines concerned, and the adjustment of traffic^carrying capacity. Differences on the latter point relate to both the initial allotment of capacity and a formula for increasing the capacity quotas after a trial period of three years on the basis of the average pay-loads carried.

Meanwhile the conference has proceeded behind closed doors to discuss the points on which Britain, America, and Canada are already agreed. Considerable progress is reported, and the conference atmosphere is now optimistic, says the Associated Press of America, though the leaders are still cautious about predicting a complete success.