Teal Interested [?]

British Aircraf[?]

Three senior TEAL executive.

February were in the UK havin closer look at the British Aire Corporation’s long-range comma passenger transport—the VC TEAL is interested in the aircrai a replacement for her Electra f Re-equipment has to be compe in readiness for the opening of' Mangere international jet airport Auckland, estimated as the set half of 1965.

T>OAC, which in April will fly\ ** Tasman for the first time ai extension of its London-Sydney vice, has already ordered VC-lO’s some of its routes.

TEAL general manager F.

Reeves said in Auckland in Febr that the check on the most re VC-10 developments had been le; the last moment so that BAC c; be as far ahead as possible wit! development flying. (The aircraft: flown for the first time last yean French Plan If final agreement could be m at a meeting in May, the Frencht line TAJ will be granted ti Tasman rights from Sydney to At land when Mangere airport is ope This would give the French a roc the-world route through Asia, . tralia, NZ and Tahiti. At present flies from Sydney to Noumea across the Pacific. The French si;i a provisional agreement in Well ton in February.