TASMAN FLIGHTS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29818, 10 May 1962, Page 10

TASMAN FLIGHTS

Airlines Plan Increase Between April and September this year there will have been 615 trans-Tasmen return flights, an increase of 110 on the same period last year. In an announcement yesterday, Tasman Empire Airways Ltd- and Qantas said tha‘ the airlines were making provision for 773 return flights in the October-March period compared with 708 in the same period in 1961-62. The announcement said that the two airlines forecast a faster rate of growth in the winter traffic than during the summer season. This trend had followed the successful development of offseason package tour holidays. These had helped to correct the imbalance between summer and winter traffic numbers. The schedule provides for more trans-Tasman flights in the year ending March. 1963, than in any previous year. Both airlines will serve all terminate in each country. Other changes announced include an Auckland-Bris-bane service to be operated through the full year on a return weekly flight basis. Services to Norfolk Island will be increased to one weekly return flight. Christchurch-Melbourne Increased services between Australia and New Zealand include an additional return flight between Christchurch and Melbourne. From August the service will be raised from one flight a week to two. In peak periods additional flights will be added.

Advanced departure times on the Wellington-Sydney service will allow year-round connexions to be made on the same day in Melbourne and other Australian cities. Representatives of both airlines said that the new time-tables, in both frequency and timing for departures and arrivals, will represent the best service through a 12 months’ period on trans-Tasman routes yet offered to the travelling public.