TASMAN AIR SERVICES
CHARTERED PLANES TO BE USED WELLINGTON, April 10. Tasman Empire Airways will fly two charter aircraft between Auckland and Sydney. This is to cope with the increased number of passengers usually catered for by the New Zea-land-Australian sea service. In a telephone interview from Auckland to-night, Mr J. W. Veale, assist-ant-general manager for New Zealand of Tasman Empire Airways, said, the main reason for the increased service was the astonishingly heavy bookings caused recently by people making connexions with ships sailing from Australia to the. United Kingdom. . • The chartered aircraft are 40 to 50passenger landplanes,. One of them will arrive at Whenuanat on Thursday. and the other on Monday. They will return on the same days. Effort, are being made to charter more aircraft.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26393, 11 April 1951, Page 6
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