AIRFARES
TO COMPETE WITH ROAD AND RAIL.
A co-operative .attempt is being made by Imperial Airways, the Belgian firm of 5.A.8.E.N.A., and the German Luft Hansa to put the fares of the European air routes on a directly competitive basis with that of surface travel. The Shell Company of New Zealand hss been advised that the LondonBaris single fare has been reduced from £5/5/- to £4/12/6, and the London Brussels and Antwerp from £4 to £3 iJO/-. The Indian and African air rout* es have been .made independent of each, ptfyer. and the revised scale of fares shows, in the case of Egypt, for example, a saving of £l4 in the air fare oven that of first-class surface transport, combined with a two days’ saving in time.- 1 The air fare from London to Cairo under the new schedule is £3B; by surface transport it is £52.' To Baghdad the air fare is £59 compared with £66, and a five-day longer trip by boat and rail. To Khartoum on the Nile, the air fare of £59 compares favour, ably with the combined boat and rail fare of £B2. To Kenya Colony the air fare of £92 shows a saving of £8 over first-class surface transport, but the biggest factor in this instance is the saving in time, which amounts to 21 days.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 2
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222AIRFARES Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1932, Page 2
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