Ext 609/48 'Monthly newsletters of Middle East civil air attaché (December 1947, January 1948)' [‎7v] (14/78)

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CONFIDEI’^TIAL.
EGY P T - SEC TION III, 1\JR OWsj.TWQ CCI^n^_^7^r^
Durinr; jx^ comb or 19- , 4 »-7 the cornoxmtion made throe unsohodulod
flights o.ll from Cairo .to pay-id.
D. The second Solent proving (developnient) flight to vaotldojn
(johcjmesbvrg) has an E.T.D. fraa the united Kingdom of 31st January,
and is to overfly Cx.iro. The aircraft rill fly direct from Augusts,
to Kh rtoim.
2, MISi. AIRL INES.
(a) JI.E. uo.ssan gad-k pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has been elected chairman and Managing
Director of Misr Aiivork* fie \.as previously Managing Director only.
(b) Aii^'ork >Toston 1 laving sold their shareholding in this c°mpany,
the Board of Directors is now ortirely Egyptian for the first time in
fifteen yo/.rs. Moiioncd poushdy Boy is still Q-eneral Manager and co~
gyng Dia meter ox the rjom^any; c. xotbi Boy the Controller-General,
Maitre pa .f it the Director of Traffic, and Maitre Mokbel the secretary
G no 3 ro.l.
(c) ... r e under stand that the Tfis:r Banlc has decided to make various
changes in the financial control and directorship of theii various
concerns, and to ranrJLgcanntc- uisx navigation, Misr shipping, and
Misr Airlines into a single company with a oanmon Board of Directors
under the Chair unship of Dr. jyifez Afifi pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . phis would, of
course, mo n that Mis:. Airlines 'would no longer have a separate Board
of Directors.
3., P/J'JAIR DE mAZIL.
■ IA BOURSE ;:;GXi?TISi;.a3 on l 6 th januaip- reported that this Compaq
would reco. iiaenct. their tomporarily suspended (due to cholera) Rio de
Janeiro-Cairo service as from 22nd January. panair's first aircraft
has. since passed througii Cairo.
4* d* ATOBTION.
Ill BOURSE EGfl^TIEin^ on Ibth January reported tlir.t this Company’ s
Rome-oairo-Raro service a s to be amended as follo:;s-, - Land at parouk
on pridays instead of Mondays or.ch week. popart from parouk cn
Saturdays instead of Tuesdays each »eek. These alterations are now in
force.
5• :X2fPT IAN flRGB.IB 1 ^OCIB ENT.
JOUITN^L D’EGXPTE on 22nd and 23rd January reported that an
Iiyptian D.D.T. spray sanitary aircraft had crashed in flarnes between
Mariut and Cairo, botri pilots being killed. The aircraft was apparently
attached to the sanitary gcuadron basoe 1 on paroulc, and the commanding
Officer of the squadron was -piloting the rircre.ft in question when ho
3 ran into lo:■ cloud. The pilot crashed in an attempt to reduce altitude
to enable him to spray D.D.T. beneath cloud level.
6. NORD AffRISf AVUIZIQ]^.
MTTEIfffL- No. 1^-12 'reported that this company of Benghazi, cyrenaica,
an Italian airline with a financial interest in the Anglo-Italian
Alitalia, will start services along the coast of North Africa between
Egypt and Spanish Morocco this spring. . it is intended to use piat
G* 212 tiiree—engined coraraercial tr ansports. The c<*apany ’va-s formed
bcioxe the war: by oonvundent Rjgazzi, its Managing Director.
SECTION III, paragraph 7/