The airline operators' prayers were answered last week. SPAB suddenly announced that the airlines might order 228 transports for delivery in 1942 and the first half of 1943.
They may order 156 21-passenger DC3s; 52 17-passenger Lockheed Lodestars; 20 40-passenger DC4s. U.S. airlines will get these planes on the basis of: 1) number of passengers carried; 2) the condition of flying stock. Since they now own only 346 ships, delivery of the new planes will boost their equipment over the 500 mark, enable them to handle any immediate increase in traffic.
This is a whopping victory for the airlines, a defeat...
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