PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS
TO OPERATE MANH4 SERVICE PASSENGERS AND MAIL / Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, September 9. The Department of Commerce announced that a regularly scheduled air passenger mail service from Oakland, California, via Honolulu, to Manila, a distance of 7,990 miles, will be started soon. Federal engineering and flight officers recently made a round-trip inspection flight and approved the route The flying time will be 57 hours: elapsed time, 60 hours for weekly round trips. Owing to the large petrol load necessary the maximum will be seven passengers and 8001 b of mail. Pan-American Airways will operate the service and will receive two dollars a mile for the mail contract. It is stated that the transatlantic air service is temporarily held up due to insistence by the United States that Pan-American Airways be allowed to make trip for trip with Imperial Airways pending an agreement by the British authorities. It is understood that Imperial Airways is considering the possibility of operating its own transatlantic service via Montreal and Bermuda.
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Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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168PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS Evening Star, Issue 22441, 11 September 1936, Page 9
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