AVIATION CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1944, Page 5

AVIATION CONTROL

AMERICAN UNITY. NEW YORK. November 5. Nineteen delegates from the LatinAmerican countries to the aviation conference in Chicago have organised a bloc supporting the United States plan, except the proposals to establish an executive of 15 members,” says the “New York Times’s correspondent in Chicago. “At the same time the Latin-American bloc unanimously opposes the British proposal to establish an international air authority ‘which would infringe upon the sovereign rights of small nations.’ These delegates have also announced that the Latin-American countries will jointly submit an alternative plan for the creation of an interim aviation council with a purely technical advisory function, on which every nation will have voting power.” The New York “Herald-Tribune” says that the situation regarding representation on the council became so aggravated at the closed committee session that charges of “fuehrer principle’’ were hurled against the United States proposals. EMPIRE AIR ROUTES.

LONDON, November 6

“A powerful co-operative scheme of inter-Empire ah’ services throughout the world is being quietly worked out behind the scenes,” says the aviation writer of the “Daily Mail” (Colin Bednail). “Discussions are proceeding between British Overseas Airways and individual air line companies. They are, of course, subject to any overriding political considerations, but may give British aviation a more powerful voice in the international arena. One significant development is the formation of . a new African company which will provide a new lirik-up in the set of all-British air routes running the length and breadth of Africa from Egypt to Cape Town. “Mr. Hudson Fysh, of Qantas Airways. is expected in London shortly to discuss a co-operative scheme with British Overseas Airways regarding post-war services between New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, and possibly India. _ Canada is apparently the only Dominion with which working agreements are not yet mooted. British Overseas Airways is believed to have indicated its readiness to share routes, equipment, and maintenance units with the Empire companies. British Overseas Airways and the

Empire company concerned would operate parallel services on an individual route.”

SYDNEY-LONDON SERVICE

SYDNEY, November 7. The twice-weekly air service between Sydney and London, which will be in regular operation within a month, is expected to lift 40 passengers a week. The service is being pioneered by the R.A.F. Liberator Commando. The new air service will relieve considerably the list of high priority passengers from Australia and New Zealand awaiting berths to London. Air Commodore Powell, senior Air Staff Officer of the R.A.F. Transport Command and Captain of the Commando, has been busy since the plane’s arrival from New Zealand drafting details of the five and a-half days’ Sydney to London schedule. Montreal will be reached in four and a-half days with Fiji as the probable first day’s objective, after a call at Auckland. Other calling ports will be Canton Islqnd, Honolulu and San Francisco.