AIR MAIL SERVICES
PARIS TO SOUTH AMERICA
INAUGURATED TO-DAY
PARIS, February 29
A regular airmail service between Paris and South America, is being inaugurated on Friday, when a ’plane starts from Paris. It is expected chat 9,000 miles will be covered in ten days, just half the time of the present service. Aerial lighthpuses will shortly be installed to permit of night travelling. By autumn it is hope-d that the journey will be done in seven days, and later in four days.
The route is via Toulouse, Casablanca, Senegal, and Cape Verde, whence the mails will he taken by a despatch boat to Brazil, thence by aeroplane, to Buenos Ayres. There will be a surcharge of 7Jfr for a. 5-gramme letter to Brazil, and of 9fr to' other countries.
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Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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129AIR MAIL SERVICES Evening Star, Issue 19805, 2 March 1928, Page 4
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