§ 142. Mrs. Shirley Williamsasked the Minister of Aviation what information he has as to whether the European airlines have agreed on a common specification for a European airbus.
§ Mr. MulleyEuropean airlines organised at Heathrow last October a symposium on the requirement for an aircraft for high density routes in the 1970s. A substantial measure of agreement emerged on many of the desirable characteristics of such an aircraft, but no formal agreed specification resulted nor was expected.