PACIFIC AIRWAYS
PAN-AMERICAN SERVICE FIRST FLIGHT ON JULY 12. NO PASSENGERS TO BE CARRIED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Dav, 10.0 a.m.) NEW YORK. July 2. Pan-American Airways will carry no passengers to New Zealand on the first of two trips. The "commander of the July 12 flight is Captain John H. Tilton and the first officer Captain R. J. Nixon. Both have participated in surveys. Already 100,000 first Hight covers are waiting in San Francisco. Twenty-live thousand more are expected before the closing date of July 10. There is uncertainly whether the plane will carry direct Australian mail. 'The Post Office announces that it is not carrying it. Pan-American Airways announce that they are carrying it at sixty cents per half-ounce, compared with fifty cents to New Zealand. Mr Harold Gatty will accompany the first flight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1940, Page 5
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