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Last week in Singapore, covering Communist-led political riots, Correspondent Gene Symonds left the American Club and headed for the scene of the trouble to talk to some of the rioters. His cab was stopped at two police roadblocks, but Symonds ordered the driver on. At the second, he told four constables standing in his way: "I have an important job to do." When the car got close enough for Symonds, he handed the driver his card, told him, "In case I don't come back this way, come to the office in the morning to get paid." Then...
...Civil Aeronautics Board last week, the actions of Hawaiian Airlines were little short of outrageous. The CAB flatly accused the airline of using its Government subsidy money to try to throttle competition from smaller Trans-Pacific Airlines in the rich short-haul market around the Hawaiian Islands. To call a halt, the board overruled the recommendation of its examiner and cut back H.A.L.'s requested $1,300,000 mail pay for 1955 by 85%, leaving only...
...face of it, CAB's anger seemed justified; the airline situation in Hawaii is indeed in a mess. But it was CAB itself that had started the fight between the airlines, and it had already cost the U.S. $3,280,000 in subsidies...
NONSCHEDULED AIRLINES will soon get a chance to fly U.S. mail, if the courts uphold the Civil Aeronautics Board. After trying for years, three big charter operators (Slick, Flying Tiger, Riddle) have just won CAB permission to fly mail at 18½? per ton-mile (v. 45? for scheduled lines), and thus cut themselves in on the lucrative mail business. All that stands in their way is American Airlines, which claims that the CAB decision is illegal and has asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for a review...
...program is likely to be expensive, at least in the early stages. Some 50 prospective helicopter lines have applications pending before CAB. Only three-Los Angeles Airways, Chicago's Helicopter Air Service, Inc. and New York Airways-have been certificated for scheduled passenger and mail service, and they already cost the U.S. more than $2,600,000 annually in mail pay and direct subsidy. Not one makes money. New York Airways, for example, runs 37 daily flights (8,750 passengers in 1954) between Newark, La Guardia and Idlewild Airports. Because of the high expenses ($3.56 per plane mile...