AIR EXPRESSES
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PLANS FOR FASTER MAILS TO INDIA. NEW PALESTINE ROUTE,
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RUGBY, Monday. Satisfactory progress is being made in the constructioii of a great maritime port at Haifa on the coast of Palestine, to make it possible for Imperial Airways to introduce experimentally faster and more direct winter air services between Great Britain and India. Beginning in the middle of October, arrangements will be made for two Empire Air Mail services to leave London every week, one on Saturday and the other on Wednesday. The Saturday servces will carry the Indian Air,. Mail and after leaving Athens,_will continue by flying via Cyprus to Haifa, instead of by Crete to Alexandria. . At Haifa, triple-screw land 'planes will continue the journey across Palestine, ■ and Iralc to Baghdad. The Air Mail will arrive at Karachi in less than six days after leaving London. The existing service between Palestine and Egypt will be retained and will give through connections between Central Africa and India. The new arrangements will provide a' direct air service between Great Britain "and Palestine and it will now be possible to fly from Kenya Colony to Inda via Egypt in only eight days.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 9, 2 September 1931, Page 3
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201AIR EXPRESSES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 9, 2 September 1931, Page 3
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