News digest, Vol. 1, No. 23, August 21, 1945

              
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ARMY TO USE COil-ERCIAL AIRLINE OPERATORS IN REDEPLOYMENT
The Army program for use of the commercial airlines for the redeployment of troops from the east to the west coast has been "broadened to include Pan American Airways. The services are to start for all operators AuBust 27,
HOUSE COMMITTEE URGES RETENTION OF PACIFIC BASES
A House Merchant Marine Subcommittee recommended that the U.S. retain military and naval bases in all Pacific areas as ”a comparatively inexpensive form of national insurance»"America* Aviation Daily Reports.
Bonner’s committee report said that while the bases should be retained primarily for military use, a thorough study should be made of the- economic possibilities of Pacific islands to be controlled by U.$.
NUMBER OF U.S. AIRPORTS INCREASES
The CAA has revealed the number of U.S. airports of all sizes has increased from 2,331 on December 31, 1940 to 3,505 on February 1, 1945. T*ie February total includes 1,046 municipal airports* 1,100 commercial; 228 CAA intermediate; 1,131 miscellaneous; 539 army or navy; 443 army or navy operated; 3 CAP; 59 miscellaneous government; and 77 private airports.
BRITISH AIR POLICY MAY REMAIN UNCHANGED
Washington believes that British air policy will remain basically unchanged 'under the new Labor Government, although private capital may not be encouraged to participate extensively in overseas services.
British Prime Minister Clement R. Atleo’s new Labor Cabinet will include Lord Winster,. Minister of Civil Aviation; John V/ilmot, Minister of Supply and Aircraft Production; and Viscount Stwiis^to, Air Secretary, states Aviation Daily.
Lord Winster, who succeeds Viscount Swinton as Minister of Civil Aviation, sat in the House as a Liberal during 1923-24 and as a Labor member during 1935-41. Sixty years ola, and author of ’’The Air Defenses of Great Britain” and ’’The War on Our Doorstep”, he has been with the Air Ministry attached to the Fleet Air Arm.
PAN AMERICAN HORTA-LISBON SUMMER FARES BOOM BUSINESS
Pan American is optimistic over the appeal of low cost Clipper travel for the ’’common man” after a preview this summer on the Horta-rLisbon leg where, within two months, passengers numbered 312 over a route which, normally during the winter, does not average "even one passenger per trip,” the company states.
The Aviation Daily also reports that with the start of summer schedules on M»y 15, the one-way fare from Horte to Lisbon was reduced from $106 to $45 .and the round-trip fare was fixed at $61, permitting Azores residents to travel
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