PACIFIC AIR SERVICES

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29099, 11 January 1960, Page 11

PACIFIC AIR SERVICES

P.A.A. Requests Extension

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, January 8.

Pan American World Airways has petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board to allow it to extend its Pacific services to provide direct jet services from Australia to cities in the eastern United States. The airline made the request in a five-point "statement of position” submitted to the C.A.B. yesterday. The network of services it wanted to establish would allow it to reduce fares by 20 per cent, and freight rates by 62.5 per cent., the airline said. Among the requests made by Pan American were:

Extension of its Orient. South Pacific and Hawaiian routes to major United States cities east of the Mississippi, allowing direct through jet service from New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, Chicago and Detroit to Hawaii, Tokyo. Manila. Hong Kong. Australia and other Pacific points. Direct access to Manila from Tokyo via Okinawa. The airline said its present connexion between Manila and Tokyo, by way of Hong Kong made it make a detour more than 700 miles. Inclusion of Tahiti on the southern Pacific route and the closing of the gap between Australia, New Zealand and the Orient. Pan American said that while it currently served points in both areas it was not permitted to connect “these two increasingly important areas.” The airline said its suggested programme would permit “full utilisation of long-range, fast jet aircraft on direct routes instead of the present roundabout island hopoing route.” United Airlines and Northwest Airlines also have asked the C.A.B. to authorise route changes throughout the Pacific.

Pan American also said the temporary operating routes of Trans World Airlines east of India and of South Pacific Airlines between Hawaii and Tahiti should not be renewed.

Stay at home in your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions.—Ralph Waldo Emerson.