AIR PLEASURE-CRUISES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 173, 9 August 1937, Page 6

AIR PLEASURE-CRUISES

-Own Correspondent.)

New Popular Excursions HOLIDAYS IN EUROPE

(By Air Mail—

LONDON, July 17. Holidays by airway promise , to become the logical suceessor to the summer cruise for English people. In six years the popularity of this method of travel has' increased to sueh an extent that "inclusive" four, five, and eightday tours' are catered "for iu large numbers, while the 14-day tour promises to become equally popular. For the most part these air tours are made on the Continent, for Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia the French Riyiera and Seandipavia are all within a day's reaeh oi London, and the journeys are made in comfort and with punctuality, A variety of lines caters for this tourist - trade. In addition to Imperial Airways, there are the Sabena Belgian Air Lines, the K.L.M. Dutch Air Lines, Air Force Line, the Swiss Air Lines, and the German Air Lines. These services are interlinked and run to timeA new way of spending a Sunday is to leave Croydon at 9.45 a.m. for Le Touquet, the fashionable French seaside resort, which is reached at 10.50 a.m. Passengers are taken by motor to the Casino grounds, and, after staying for eight hours, they can be back in London by 10 p.m. The total cost is £3 15/-. On the other hand, 18 days can be spent seeing Europe at a cost of £67 15/-. The first stop is Le Bourget, for Paris. Prague is reached by lunchtime the next day, and after a day there Yienna is the next easy stage. Budapest is only one hour away (flying time), and after two days there Belgrade is the- next stop. Then the tour continues to Bucharest and Istanbul. From there the homeward flight is over Bucharest, Budapest and Prague to Paris in one day. London is the next stop after a night's rest. Meals are served during Ihe" flight s and no special clothing necd be worn, for the air liners are warmed and ventilated. These air tours have long passed the stage when they were regarded as novelties.