AIRMAIL SERVICE
NORTHERN ATLANTIC ROUTE RE-OPENED. OTTAWA. Airmail service from Canada to the United Kingdom via Newfoundland and Eire —the northern route —has been resumed, the Postmaster-General recently announced. The service is operated twice weekly in each direction, but under present conditions, no information respecting dates or other details of such flights will be revealed. Resumption of the trans-Atlantic airmail service, suspended between Canada and the United Kingdom early in the war, will save many days over the existing airmail service via Lisbon, Portugal. The mail planes span the 2,500-mile stretch over the Atlantic in about 24 hours, and through connections with the trans-Canada air mail network link the Pacific coast with Britain in about two days, Approaching summer and more favourable weather conditions will ensure regular service and a high degree of efficiency, the Post Office anticipates. The air mail rate from Canada to the United Kingdom is 30 cents, a half ounce or fraction thereof which includes conveyance over Canadian domestic routes when necessary.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1942, Page 2
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166AIRMAIL SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1942, Page 2
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