[?]Stralia And New Zealand Re-Appraise

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S Pacific Air Requirements

From a Suva Correspondent An announcement about the future operations of TEAL ill probably be made by the NZ and Australian Governments igether before the end of July.

announcement was ready for early July, but NZ Prime Minister Nash queried some : at the last minute —and then JZ Budget was upon him. ten the announcement comes it

will make at least half-a-dozen main points which will in effect restate the whole South Pacific routes in volving TEAL and Qantas.

TEAL will give away some ground, and gain elsewhere.

One of the things Qantas will probably get is the right for direct flights between Fiji and NZ, and the right to fly the Tasman on their round-the-world flights. (It is unlikely that Qantas will compete with TEAL in trans-Tas man traffic, but Qantas will have the right for its passengers travelling between say, Sydney and San Francisco, to break their journeys in NZ. Sydney office of Qantas has stated also that when Electras are in use. TEAL will not need more than 1 h planes to do its trans- Tasman job, and that Qantas will likely charter the spare half.) The Coral Route TEAL, it seems certain, will be able to keep its Coral Route going until it can get enough landing fields for land-based aircraft, and this part of the Pacific basin will have no complaints about that.

For TEAL’S name is high here.

People would be genuinely unhappy

if they thought TEAL were going to get the worst end of the stick.

TEAL is "All Right"

But the people who are directing TEAL don’t seem to be worrying too much—that, anyway, is the im pression I got from chairman Sir Leonard Isitt, and general manager F. A. Reeves, who were in Suva early July.

Sir Leonard said, “We didn’t get the aircraft we want, it’s true; but we got a good one, and anyway the type of aircraft is only a small part of the overall picture.

“That part has got a lot of publicity. But the whole pattern is what counts, and we did all right.

We have no complaints.”