CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25660, 7 October 1944, Page 8

CIVIL AIR TRANSPORT

ORDERLY WORLD SYSTEM GREAT BRITAIN’S OBJECTIVES RUGBY. Oct. 5. The Government’s attitude towards Eost-war civil aviation was outlined y the Minister of Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, in the House of Commons today. He was asked what were the Government’s plans and programmes for an orderly world -system of civil aviation. He renlied that the Government was seeking international collaboration in the development of an orderly world system of civil air transport. The principles which the Government favoured were stated by the Lord Privy Seal on May 10 last. These were eliminating uneconomic competition, maintenance of the balance between transport capacity and traffic offering on international routes, and control and allocation of frequencies by and betweeq the countries concerned. . Replying to further questions, Sir Archibald Sinclair referred to the forthcoming Montreal conference, beginning on October 23. At this conference, he said, air transport services operating for war purposes would be reviewed, and it was expected that there would be discussion of possible operations during the remainder of the war as well as in the post-war period. Any recommendations by the conference would be submitted to the Government for approval. A general international conference on aviation problems would be held in the United States at the end of November, and South Africa had agreed to postpone the conference that was to be held in Johannesburg this month. The Prime Minister will shortly make an appointment for a Minister to deal with civil aviation, according to agency reports. It is; most likely that he will be a member of the House of Lords, and the appointment will carry Cabinet rank. It is understood that the new Minister will head the delegation to Washington later in the year.