AIR TRANSPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18858, 8 November 1935, Page 9

AIR TRANSPORT

OWNERS OP 'DROMES CONFERENCE IN BRITAIN (From a Special Correspondent) LONDON. Oct, 1. The Aerodrome Owners' Association, which works under the auspices of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, has decided to hold a conference early next year on similar lines to that held ui Loikloh last January. Two hundred and fifty delegates, iepresentuig the majority of aircraft, operators in Great Britain, 42 municipal authorities who were then the. owners of aerodromes or were considering (heir acquisition, and the chief private conpanies, that control aerodromes met for three days to discuss mutual problems and to hear papers bearing on fundamental principles of airline and aerodrome organisation and development. lu the months that have followed that first conference, the Aerodrome Owners' Association has. grown considerably in membership and importance. Originally simply a subdivision of the Air Transport Section, 5.8.A.C., it has become an autonomous body with greatly extended powers and responsibilities. It now has 44 members, _of whom 30 are municipal authorities, which means that the majority of municipal aerodrome owners in Britain are members of the association.

Among the many vital matters which will need tho attention of the association in the next few months will be a report from the Air Ministry on air routes and landing facilities within the British Isles. In April this year a deputation from tho association interviewed Lord Londonderry, then Secretary of State for Air, and secured from him an undertaking that tho Ministry would survey the country and report in terms which would assist municipal and private bodies in the establishment of an efficient network of homo air routes. The object of the association was to avoid waste and duplication of effort, and at the. same time to meet as far as possible the declared requirements of the State. The survey was begun without delay and a report now in course of preparation should reach the association before the end of this year.