SPEEDING-UP AIR MAIL

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21449, 15 April 1935, Page 11

SPEEDING-UP AIR MAIL

EARLY ACTION NOT EXPECTED LONDON. April 11. Aviation authorities do not interpret Sir Ivingsley Wood's statement about; the speeding-up of air mails as meaning any early drastic acceleration of the Australian service. A seven-day schedule depends first, on the provision of a fleet of new faster aircraft, which will not be ready before the end of 1936, and second, on the completion of a financial agreement between Great Britain and the Dominions on a large scale development of Imperial routes. PASSENGERS ALLOWED ON SERVICE NOW NO BOOKINGS THIS WEEK i (Received April 15, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON. April 14. The contract period during which Imperial Airways and QantasEmpire Airways were not allowed to carry passengers to Australia has now ended, and the first aeroplane on which passengers could have been taken left Croydon to-day. There had been no bookings, but it is understood that there are two for next week;