William Francis Casey (2 May 1884– 20 April 1957) was a journalist and editor of The Times

He was born in Cape Town, the son of Patrick Joseph Casey, theatre proprietor, of Glenageary, and was educated at Castleknock College and Trinity College, Dublin.

He spent two years reading medicine before turning to law. He was called to the Irish bar in 1909. But again he was undecided on his career. He described his period in the law as ‘one year, one brief, one guinea’.^[1] His thoughts had been drawn instead towards the theatre and, while reading for the bar, he became interested in the work of the Abbey Theatre when the directors included W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory. He worked for a time on the business side, and then in 1908 two of his plays, The Suburban Groove and The Man who Missed the Tide, were produced at the Abbey and with their success he decided to try his luck in London. He took with him a letter to Bruce Richmond, editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Richmond saw the young writer's promise and it was agreed that Casey should review for the supplement. In 1914 he married Amy Gertrude Pearson-Gee, a widow, and sister-in-law of Karl Pearson. They had no children.

Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War, Casey was offered a post as a sub-editor in the sporting department of The Times and from then until his retirement he was a permanent member of that paper's staff. He then served as a foreign sub-editor, with his interest and skill leading to a posting to Washington in 1919, then to Paris in the following year. He returned to London in 1923 as chief foreign sub-editor, regarded as one of the most arduous and anxious positions on the paper. He held this post until 1928. He was part of the group of proprietors and editorial staff who attempted to produce the paper during the general strike of 1926. Afterwards a souvenir volume, Strike Nights in Printing House Square, was printed for private record. One of its pictures bore the caption ‘Amateurs in the foundry’ and showed Casey and Captain Shaw, the chairman's secretary, hard at work on a mechanical process, as ‘the champion pair of matrix moulders’.

In 1928 Casey joined the Times's foreign leader-writing staff. He attended many of the Geneva sessions of the League of Nations. In the 1930s his concern grew as to German aspirations in Europe. He was known within the senior ranks as a francophile, but within The Times of that period he ‘knew that his judgement on foreign matters carried little weight’.^[2]

He was one of the senior journalists who gathered in 1936 in the office of the paper's deputy editor, Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward — a strong supporter of appeasement with Hitler, as was the editor, Geoffrey Dawson — to demand the paper take a stronger line to ‘stand up to Hitler’.^[3] They were ignored. But on Dawson's retirement in 1941, the new editor, Barrington-Ward, appointed Casey his deputy; the selection was welcomed by the staff, partly because of his greatly more relaxed style. He was a member of many clubs and he would declare that, if he could squeeze in a game of billiards in his dinner break, work went much more easily on his return. Iverach McDonald described him as ‘never over-eager to work’.^[4]

Barrington-Ward's premature death in 1948 threw the burden of editorship on to Casey's shoulders sooner than expected: he himself had never wished to be editor. Only a few months before he had agreed with Barrington-Ward that he ‘should very soon retire’.^[5] Stephen Koss says it was ‘clearly a stopgap appointment’.^[6] John Pringle, on The Times staff, said of Casey's editorship that ‘as time went on, he found it harder to face the detailed administrative work and constant decisions … [his deputy, Donald] Tyerman … often had to get the paper out for days on end without much guidance from the editor’.^[7] Yet his willingness to listen to staff and the fact that, unusually for an editor, he ‘seemed to have all the time in the world’,^[8] made him a popular figure among the journalists under him.

Sources[link]

• The Times (22 and 24 April 1957)

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William Francis may refer to:

• William B. Francis (1860–1954), U.S. Representative from Ohio
• William D. Francis (1889–1959), botanist
• WiL Francis, member of the American post-hardcore band Aiden
• Willie Francis, convicted murderer
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• Bill Francis, rugby league player of the 1960s and 1970s for Wigan, Wales, and Great Britain
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Salzburg Airport W. A. Mozart Airport LOWS — Salzburg Airport — W. A. Mozart
From the air
IATA: SZG – ICAO: LOWS SZG Location of airport in Austria
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Salzburger Flughafen GmbH
Location		Salzburg
Elevation AMSL		430 m / 1,411 ft
Coordinates		47°47′40″N 013°00′12″E / 47.79444°N 13.00333°E / 47.79444; 13.00333 (Salzburg Airport)
Website		www.salzburg-airport.com
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
16/34	2,750	9,022	Concrete
Statistics (2009)
Total Passengers			1,552,154
Aircraft Movements			19,456
Sources: EUROCONTROL[1] Passenger and Movement Statistics from Salzburg Airport[2]

Salzburg Airport or W. A. Mozart Airport (IATA: SZG, ICAO: LOWS) is the second largest airport in Austria.

The airport, named after Salzburg-born composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is located 1.7 NM (3.1 km; 2.0 mi)^[1] west-southwest from the centre of Salzburg and 2 km (1.2 mi) from the Austrian-German border.

The airport is a gateway to Austria's numerous and vast ski areas, including the Ski Amadé region, the largest network of linked ski resorts in Europe.

The airport is jointly owned by the City of Salzburg (25%) and The State of Salzburg (75%). As of 2001 it was valued at € 22,000,000.

Salzburg trolleybus lines 2 and 8, each with service every 10 minutes, connect the airport to the rest of Salzburg's public transportation system. The main station is reachable in about 25 minutes and the inner city in about 30 minutes.

History[link]

Pre-World War II[link]

In 1910, the first powered aircraft taxied on to the new race track in Salzburg-Aigen for the very first time. In 1926, Deutsche Luft Hansa inaugurated the Munich-Salzburg-Bad Reichenhall route. In 1927, the Vienna-Salzburg-Innsbruck route was started by ÖLAG (Austrian Aviation AG). In one of the earlier incidents Luft Hansa, which flew the London-Brussels-Frankfurt-Munich-Vienna route with Sabena, made a forced landing in Salzburg. 1939 saw the introduction of the Berlin-Prague-Salzburg-Venice and Munich-Salzburg-Klagenfurt-Ljubljana-Rijeka routes which were planned for the summer schedule.

The war years[link]

At the start of World War II, on 1 September 1939, Salzburg Airport was seized and in 1943 the "Luftgaukommando VII" in Munich was put in charge of it. In the autumn of 1944 the newly developed fighter jet Messerschmitt Me 262 appeared. When the United States Air Force first bombed the city of Salzburg on 16 October 1944, with a subsequent 15 air attacks on the city, the airport remained undamaged. Salzburg Airport was the first Austrian airport which managed to become a part of European scheduled traffic again.

Post war[link]

On 1 August 1958, a control tower was put into operation after a 15 month construction period and a new terminal was opened in 1966. While 1978 saw the first landing of a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 it was in 1984 when the first Boeing 767 (Braathens from Norway) and an Air France Concorde first appeared at the airport. The airport reached the target of 1,265,000 passengers in 2000, and British Airways announced flights to Salzburg from London. These flights were cancelled a year later. Also in 2001, low-cost carrier Ryanair landed at Salzburg, its first Austrian destination. This was also the first time an Austrian airport hosted a low-cost carrier. Aer Lingus commenced flights to Salzburg from Dublin for their winter schedule in 2005. In 2006, Ryanair started services to Charleroi, which ended in 2007, and Dublin. They also announced routes to Rome and Istanbul. British Airways restarted flights to London Gatwick Airport on 1 December.

Transportation[link]

The airport is located 3 km from the city-center. Regional buses to take you to the city are: Salzburg trolleybus no.2 to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, Salzburg trolleybus no.8 to Salzburg city centre and Salzburg bus no.27 to Wals/Viehhausen. The route map is available to download here. Salzburg Hauptbahnhof is approximately 10–15 minutes away by bus. In winter Salzburg is a popular getaway for winter sports. The airport offers many transfer services to popular resorts, visit airport website to get contacts.

Facilities[link]

The airport provides these passenger services: left-luggage office and luggage lockers, play area for children together with baby changing failities, an exchange and post offices, a small health centre. Wireless internet service is provided free of charge.^[3]

Traffic statistics[link]

Passenger statistics for Salzburg Airport^[2]

Year	Total Passengers	% change
2005	1,695,430
2006	1,878,266	10.8
2007	1,946,422	3.6
2008	1,809,601	7.1
2009	1,552,154	14.3

Parking[link]

Indoor and outdoor parking facilities are available. There is a parking garage offering 1,921 roofed spaces. Additional 1,230 parking spaces are within 5 minutes from the terminals. Detailed info, parking plans and fees can be found on the airport website.

Future developments[link]

Indoor view of the Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport

A new terminal for winter ski charter operations (Terminal 2) which only operates on Saturdays has been opened. The new terminal 2 however has very limited passenger facilities both landside and airside and is rather sparse, compared to the original more vibrant terminal 1 offering better facilities. There is a small shop located in the airside of terminal 2. A new 100% hold baggage screening facility and the installation of a brand new baggage sorting system is under development and the airport is now concentrating on landside developments, including the extension of the existing car park structure, which has been doubled in size to accommodate 1,900 cars.

Airlines and destinations[link]

References[link]

	Aviation portal
	Austria portal

1. ^ ^{a b} EUROCONTROL basic
2. ^ ^{a b} Passenger Statistics for Salzburg Airport
3. ^ Salzburg airport facilities
4. ^ https://www.laudaair.com/book/StartHtml.aspx?a=3&fplan=y&L=0&lang=DE Lauda Air timetable (retrieved 2009-08-31)

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Salzburg Airport

• Salzburg Airport website (English)
• Salzburg Airport website (German)
• Salzburg AviationSpotter more informations about the traffic on the airport, available in German and English

v t e Airports in Austria Graz Innsbruck Klagenfurt Linz Salzburg Vienna Wels Wiener Neustadt

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