COMET SERVICE TO JAPAN
LONDON-TOKYO IN 33| HOURS
When the fourth Comet jetliner passenger service—between Britain and Japan—is started by the British Overseas Airways Corporation on April 3. the total time for the journey of 10,000 miles from London to Tokyo will be reduced frojn 86 hours to 33| hours. Comet services are already being operated from London to Johannesburg, to Ceylon, and to Singapore. Until April 13 the new service—the fastest scheduled air service ever operated between London and Tokyo —will be run once a week in each direction. After that date, there will be two services a week. The route will be through Rome, Beirut or Cairo, Bahrein, Karachi. Delhi, Calcutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Manila, and Okinawa. At present 8.0.A.C. Argonaut aircraft, which make two night stops on the route, take 86 hours for the journey. The actual flying time of the Comet, which will make no night stop, will be 261 hours from London to Tokyo, compared to the Argonaut’s 45i hours.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26986, 11 March 1953, Page 8
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