Ext 609/48 'Monthly newsletters of Middle East civil air attaché (December 1947, January 1948)' [‎7r] (13/78)

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COMS'IDENTIAL.
miPT_ - SECTIO N III. AIR CElLjVriNG. CQ/IPAMES, paragraph 1
No. 4 Lino.
13/14P, U.K./singaporc once v 7 ocld.y Hythe class, withdrawn with of foot
from 21 st Leceinber.
13 / 14 Q, U*K«/Sydney, thrice weekly Hyfh e Class. change in days cl
operations ^vith effect from 1st January..
39/40F, U^K*/Bahrein, t'.. : icc -vvcokly, Hythc class. with effect from
1st January increase in frequency from twice to thrice weekly.
No. 3 Line.
7/ 8 n, Cairo /Istanbul, t , ..ice weekly, Lodestar service, withdrawn.
(previous •page') • operated in conjunction with QAlITiiS EI'.IPIEE UK-Afo
twice 'Weekly constellation service the frequency of which as from
1 st January has "been increased to thrice fortnightly, and flying times
reduced due to the omission of "Speedpak".
projected operations.
(a) The rreeucncy of lhe~ 29 / 3 OM U.K./Cairo services will be
progressively decreased from eight per week in January to six per week
in April and three per week in May.
(b) as a temporary replacement during February, two Lancastrian
U.K./cairo/ij.K. services will operate weekly. phis service will be
replaced in April by three pork services and in May by five York
services.
(c) The frequency of the 26/23s Cairo/Nairobi services will be
reduced to once weekly during January, and it is expected to be
withdrawn during February.
(d) The frequency of the 9/lQJ York services will gradually be
increased to twice weekly in January, four times weekly in February
and eventually to six weekly services in May.
(«) it is expected that.the frequency of the 31/32M and 37/33M
U.K./palestinc/u.K. services and 43/44-M U.K«/Tehoran/U.K. services
will bo increased to five per week in April* The six weekly Halton
service 33/341 U.K./Accra will be decreased to thrice weekly during
March and will be replaced by five York services per week in April.
(f) The frequency of the i/2j U.K./gouth Africa/u.K* service will
gradually be decreased from throe per week to two per week in February,
one per week in April and be replaced by Solent services, increasing
from once weekly during February to thrice weekly during May.
(g) if is expected to replace the once weekly U.K./Coylon York
services by a weekly Lancastrian service in April.
(h) The 29/30F U.K./Hong Kong twice 'weekly Plymouth service will be
reduced to once weekly during January and withdrawn entirely by the end
of March.
(i) it is hoped to introduce a once weekly U.K./Japan Plymouth service
which will be increased to twice weekly from April.
13. B.O.f.C. have had to divert their trunk route cairo-Basra to the
north as a result of Fgyptian Notice to Airmen 12A/1947 defining a
prohibited area circulating El Arish. The diversion involves an
additional 29 nautical miles and 13 gallons of extra fuel, it is'hoped
that the Egrptian Army may consider reducing the prohibited area radius
from 25 to IQ miles.
C. Financial authority for B.O.A.C. Middle East unscheduled flights
is in future to be granted by the Ministry of civil Aviation and not
locally by this office. Similarly B.O.A.C. cannot in future ley on an
extra aircraft for any special flight ■'without the prior approval of the
Ministry.
During November 1947 the Corporation flew sixteen special flights, the
majority being cairo/payid delivery and accompanying flights.
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