FIRST STEP IN SERVICE
TO START ON NEW YEAR'S DAY CAIRO TO KARACHI AND BACK VIA BAGDAD. (United Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, 2nd September. The first big step in tho Empire air routo is definitely announced by Imperial Airways, to commence on New Year's Day. Fivo large passenger mail aeroplanes, triple engined, developing 1200 horse-power, will bo employed. Ono . .-ill leave Cairo on alternate Wednesdays, connecting with tho P. and 0. liner from England. It will land at Bagdad on Thursday passengers and j mails, which will there bo transferred to another air liner, which will fly via the Persian Gulf to Karachi, arriving on Saturday in time to connect with the trans-Indian train from Delhi anil Calcutta. The return flight from Karachi will bo commenced on the following Thursday, Bagdad being reached on Saturday and Cairo on Sunday, in time to connect with liners for Marseilles. Through passengers will spend-three nights in specially constructed rest-houses in the desert, saving five to eight days on the journey from to Inc.ia.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 56, 3 September 1926, Page 7
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