News digest, Vol. 1, No. 10, February 5, 1945

              News of the Company and aircraft industry compiled for our employees. Vol. 1, No. 10	San Francisco	February 5, 1945
EXAMINERS RECOMMENDED PAN AMERICAN AND AMERICAN EXPORT BE GIVEN NORTH ATLANTIC ROUTES; ARGUMENT SET FEBRUARY 28
The report of CAB Examiners Thomas L. Wrenn and F. D. Moran in the North Atlantic case (Docket 855 et al) was released today recommending that Pan American Airways be certificated to operate transatlantic Routes II and IV and that American Export Airlines be certificated to operate Routes I and III qh recommended by the CAB. The report recommended that AMEX should be certificated only in the event the acquisition of that company by American Airlines is approved by the CAB.
In order that Pan American might operate Route IV, the report recommended that its present certificate between New York and Lisbon and Marseilles should be amended to include Madrid as an intermediate point »-between Lisbon and Marseilles, and extended from Marseilles to Romo. It was also recommended that New Y0rk and Washington be designated U.S. co-terminals on this route but that Pan Am be restricted from carrying domestic traffic between two points.
The report recommended that Pan Am’s present certificate between New York and London, via Shediac, Botwood and Foynes should be amended to include service to Washington and Baltimore as co-terminals on one segment in addition to New York, Chicago and Detroit as co-terminals on another segment with the condition that Pan Am’s present certificate should be amended by extending it from London to Calcutta via Paris, Zurich, Rome, Athens, Cairo, Basra and Karachi. This would make its operations conform to Route II as outlined by the CAB.
With respect to the proposed four routes, the report held that all were required by the public convenience and necessity, but that Route II should be amended to include London; that Route I or II should include a seg&ent.from Athens to.Sevastopol via Istanbul and Bucharest; that Route IIP terminate at Moscow; that the segment from Lisbon or Madrid to Cairo should "be. eliminated from Route IV.
The report was predicated upon the necessity for two strong U.S.' flag-, carriers, and in this respect it held that American Airlines was the strongest of the three carriers seeking to compete vri.th Pan American.
The others were Transcontinental & Western Air and American Export.
(American Aviation Daily 1/22/45)
BOND ISSUE RECOMMENDED FOR LOS ANGELES AI RPORT
In his annual message to the Los Angelos City Council, Mayor Fletcher Bowron recommended a $10,000,000 bond issue for development of the city’s airport go on the ballot this spring. He characterized.the airport -bonds as highly necessary, if this city is to meet.competition in the commercial airlanes. , The Mayor also advocated as /soon as materials
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