ORGANISING AIR SERVICES.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1920, Page 4

ORGANISING AIR SERVICES.

AMBITIOUS AUSTRALIAN PROGRAMME. SYDNEY, March 10. An inter-Statc aerial service for the conveyance of passengers, cargo, and mails, will soon be an accomplished fact. The Australasian Aerial Transport Company will shortly he registered in Melbourne, with a capital of £700,000, to establish carrying routes in Australia and New Zealand. It is proposed to establish inter-State services in two stages. The first stage will be a daily service each way between Melbourne and Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, and Melbourne and Hobart. The time-tables for the first stage of the service, to commence in September, will he:— Melbourne to Sydney, 0* hours nonstop. Melbourne to Adelaide, 6 hours nonstop. Melbourne to Hobart, 7. .hours, stopping at Launceston to take on and deliver mails and assengers.

The second-stage services which arc contemplated will include the following flights:— Sydney to Brisbane, 6 hours, nonstop. Sydney to Adelaide, 11 hours, stopping at Hay to change machines. Adelaide to Broken Hill, 3 hours, nonstop. Adelaide to Kalgoorlie and Perth, 18 hours, with two landings to change machines. This service will be operand in connexion with the oversea mail

steamers. The organisation of the first stage of these services is already well under way. No definite plans seem to have been made with regard to New Zealand, but the promoters appear to be watching for developments in that direction.. The promoters intend to use biplanes and triplanes, with multiple engines and multiple ignition and carburation.