Ext 609/48 'Monthly newsletters of Middle East civil air attaché (December 1947, January 1948)' [‎11r] (21/78)

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' CONPI DEM’ lixL.
LEBANON.
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GOVERNMENT OFFICUJlS
por record purposes the follo\v ; ing particulars may t>c useful : -
Mr. Charles Ty^n - Director of communications and controller of
Beirut, and to send a Signals officer and an Air Traffic control
Officer to England for training and subsequently to plL.ee them in
charge of their appropriate sections of the Airfield. it is understood
that the Government have accepted a plan submitted by a firm of
prominent British architects for the new Beirut Airfield.
The new a.irficld is to be built some two mil^s south of the
existing field, and as far as is known, is to have three runways with
the following specifications;-
transmitting station situated ap-:>roximatcly half a mile south of the
present airfield.
3. MIDDLE EAST AIRLINES.
. (a) jt was reported in THE EGYPTIAN GAZETTE on 13th January that
this company lias just completed two years of successful end over-
expanding operation. B.O.A.C^s agreement with the Company has now termi
nated, and all B.O.A.C. seconded staff have been withdrawn.
(b) Mr. pawzi El Hoss is Manager and a Director of this company which
operates scheduled services to Cairo (i) via Syria, and (ii) via
Palestine; and also to Cyprus, Turkey and Iraq (Baghdad). All services
are operated wich Dakotas.
(c) Ti^ls company are 6 qw users of Beirut airfield, and operate in
general with a load factor of 70 to 75 % on all services except that to
Baghdad, where the company - owing to restrictions on baggage weight -
cannot canpetc with the Naim Desert Bus service.
4. QCMPAGNI B GEN ZRALE DE TRANSPORTS ADRIEN.
(a) Tills is a French owned company and backed by Air prance. Both
C.G.T. and Misr Airlines arc bitter competitors of M.E.A.L. C.G.T.
get good support from Mr. Charles Tyan, who is pro-French.
(h) C.G.T. are members of I.A.T.A. The company was formed in 1945
with a capital of 500,000 Lebanese pounds and its Directors arc Miohel
Khattar, Antoine Sehnaoui, G-orges Karem, Hussein Quoini and Basil Moguerd
(Manager). Air prance hold something in the neighbourhood of 6 q of the
shares.
(c) C.G.T. operate only from Beirut to c^iro and Alexandria at present
with JU.52 aircraft. They also fly a monthly service from Beirut via
Khartoum and port L'vny to Lagos and Freetown, and in addition undertake
charters from time to tine. The company are anxious to fTy services to
lydda and Cyprus, but so far permission has been withheld in view of the
existing M.E.A.L. services on these rhutes.
Concessions in the Ministry of public works
(the civil Aviation Authority).
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Mr. Ali Ahmed - Hoad of the Aeronautical communications section
of the Directorate of communications.
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2. BEIR UT AIRPIELD.
jt is the Government's intention to build a new airport at
l 000 metres.
2400 metres (at 30° North/south).
South/East
(iii) East/je st
it is the intention of the Government
I 800 metres.
to continue to use the existing
LEBANON/paragraph 4(d)/.....