AIR SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1933, Page 6

AIR SERVICE

BRITAIN TO CO-OPERATE

HIGHER SPEEDS PROPOSED

LONDON, December 14

As soon as the Anglo-Australian aii •mail is opened, Great Britain will cooperate in an international scheme to establish regular transatlantic services. qVo inter-Government conferences will he held in 1931 to consider services over two suggested routes. The first is from England, over Ireland, Iceland, Newfoundland and Canada to America, arid the second from Britain to France Portugal, Canada, and America. Detailed, surveys have convinced experts that a service to be maintained 'throughout the year would necessitate the use of both routes, the snorter Arctic airway being available only in summer. ' .

Conferences will assign to the various countries different sections to operate and three British factories are working on tentative designs for huge flymgboats for the Azores and the Bermuda section, capable of 180 miles an hour with several tons of mail. Dutch airmen are attempting a record flight to the East Indies to deliver the Christmas mail. Famous pilots, flying a liner at-180 miles an hour in daily hops of 1000 miles,, will leave Amsterdam on' December 18 and arrive at Batavia- on December 23. Qn the return trip the' liner- will leave Batavia on December 27 and arrive in Holland on January" I witlf New Year’s greetings.