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Air France-KLM Group CEO Ben Smith has appointed another former Air Canada executive to a senior position at the Franco-Dutch group. Angus Clarke will become EVP-strategy of Air France-KLM. The post gives him a seat on the Air France-KLM group executive committee; he will take up his position on February 1 and report directly to Smith. Since Smith’s arrival at the top post at AF-KLM in September 2018, he has helped steer wage agreements between the company and its sometimes fractious cabin crew unions, as well as taking the decision to close down its "airline for millennials," Joon. In his new role, Clarke will be responsible for defining and implementing Air France-KLM's long-term strategy, in coordination with all the Group’s stakeholders, as well as business development opportunities in its different entities. From 2016 to 2018 Clarke was special adviser to Smith when he was Air Canada’s COO on topics affecting the airline’s operational and economic performance. (Source: ATW Daily News January 18, 2019) |
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Ontario Government's Scheme of Air Immigration from Britain. Born from experience in air-trooping, when masses of men were transported to battle zones over vast distances, comes mass civilian air transportation, from continent to continent, necessitated by shipping shortages and the ever-present modern wish to get somewhere quickly. The Empire spotlight is focused on the Ontario.Government scheme for the immigration, by air transport, of 7,000 Britons seeking opportunity and a new way of life in Canada, whose potential wealth is unscratched and whose cities are unscathed by the ravages of war. First load of airborne-" Mayflower" migrants took off from Northolt (UK) airport early in August and landed at Malton, near Toronto, with intermediate stops at Shannon, Ireland, and Gander, Newfoundland. That only a minute proportion of the passengers have ever flown before is an indication of the public's faith in this modern mode of travel. In the initial stages of the scheme, three Skymasters a week were carrying 40 passengers per trip, but this has been increased to 43 aircraft per month, some of them departing from Prestwick, Scotland airport to take care of the many Scottish emigrants. Just over three thousand have departed since the inauguration, and it is expected that the balance of nearly four thousand will certainly be eating their Christmas dinner somewhere in Ontario. These will all have flown from Great Britain, and will include 3,500 from London and the South of England; 2,000 from the Midlands; and 1,500 from the North of England and Scotland. All but less than 1 per cent of those already in Canada have been fixed in suitable occupations, 90 per cent of them within 36 hours of landing. The contract for this epoch-making air move is between the Government of Ontario and Trans-Canada Air Lines, but many other organizations contribute to the success of it. The biggest burden of all is carried on the broad shoulders of Transocean Airlines of California, who supply the Skymasters and the personnel to fly them under sub-contract to Trans-Canada Air Lines. (Source: Flight International archives 1984). Transocean airlines went bankrupt in 1960. |
