AIR TRANSPORT

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 25051, 15 November 1944, Page 6

AIR TRANSPORT

DIFFERENCES PERSIST

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

DIVISION OF TRAFFIC

(Heed. 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Not. 14 The differences of opinion between Britain and the United States at the air conference in Chicago are not settled. A correspondent says the difference has arisen over the division of traffic between nations operating the same route. Britain and the United States are thinking particularly of the route across the North Atlantic.

America wants landing rights in Newfoundland, and England expects that a bigger volume of traffic, including a certain number of return ticket passengers, will start from America than England. The Americans think Britain's proposal to allocate the service on the basis of traffic ombarked in each country is unfair if passengers with return tickets to America are included as part of the British quota. Lord Swinton, leader of the British delegation, and Mr Adolf Berle, leader for the United States, have had private talks, says the correspondent, but the prospect of setting up an international authority with power to settle controversial points is not bright. The Chicago correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune states that the failure of the British and Americans to get together so far has precipitated two trends. One is toward a Continental European air bloc and the other toward a British Empire air bloc. The latter possibility was summarised by a British official in Chicago as follows: — f 'lf we do not got schedules, quotas and such things by agreement the fellow who has the_ landing fields has just as much bargaining power as the fellow with planes and we will simply fix our standards bilaterally instead multilaterally."