WILL BENEFIT N.Z.

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 355, 17 October 1932, Page 2

WILL BENEFIT N.Z.

PROJECTED AIR SERYICE FROM LONDON TO SYDNEY; CONNECTION AT KARACHI. Australian interests are extremely hopeful that before long a regular mail and passehger service will he operating between London and Sydney — which will put Sydney about a fortnight away from London, or less when Impsrial Airways speed up the Ka-rachi-London service, said Mr. Beau Shiel, Aviation Officer of the Vacuum Oil Co . at Christchurch last weelc. This would mean that Christchurch would be less than three weeks from London. For the purpose of dealing with the Government, the three most important Australian aviation companies, West Australian Airways, Quantas, and Australian National Airways, are cooperating, and they propose some sort of joint operation of the service. Negotiations so far are going well. The companies suggest that the present internal routes should be suhordinated to the Empire service. It is proposed that one service should be from Perth to Wyndham, and another from Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney to Wyndham, where the two wuuld maet, and the load of each carried on in one machine. This, it Is proposed, should fly as far as Karachi, where it would connect with the llmperial Airways service. The chief ohstacle at present appears to he that the air services want to use their present land maehines — Vickers Viastras and Fokker-Avrons — for the crossing of the Timor Sea, while the Australian Civil Aviation Department wants to see flying-hoats used, and flying-boats are extremely expensive.