BLACK PROSPECTS BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION: WAIT FOR PLANES
(11.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 22. During a debate in the House of Lords, Lord Pakenhain, Minister of Civil Aviation, said British civil aviation until new British types of planes were operating was faced wth black prospects for the next four or five years.
8.0.A.C throueh no fault of its own, operated many of its main routes under a serious competitive disadvantage. The competitive traffic position was. generally disquieting unless something drastic could be done. Britain could
not hope to get level and begin to assert superiority until the real Bulish pos - war types came into seivice at the b ginning of 1953. Tf British civil aviation continued as at present the British flag might well be driven of! world air routes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22697, 23 July 1948, Page 5
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