STRANGE PARADOX

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 121, 15 February 1941, Page 12

STRANGE PARADOX

Cosmopolitan Lisbon Airport

Commercial aircraft of six nations, three of which are engaged in different fronts of the war, leaving almost daily from Lisbon, now the foremost international air junction in the world, for London, Home, Berlin, Madrid, Tangier, and weekly for New York, give rise to one of the .strangest paradoxes of the war.' British, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and American air crews still meet regularly in the Portuguese capital, and no unpleasant incidents at the frequent encounters in hotels and at dining tables have been reported.

'Pile British Overseas Airways maintains a service of five trips a week from Lisbon to London, and the Deutsche Lufthansa aeroplanes leave daily for Madrid, Barcelona, Marseilles, Lyons, Stuttgart and Berlin, a route which lakes a day ami a night to cover. 'Phe Italian company, Ala Littoria, has aeroplanes leaving everyday except .Sunday for .Madrid, Barcelona and Rome. 'Pile Spanish Saeta service leaves Lisbon thrice weekly for Madrid and Barcelona, and the Portuguese have a twice-weekly service to Tangier. Every week the Atlantic Clippers of Pan-American Airways alight at Lisbon from New York witli mail and passengers to connect witli all the other air services which operate from Lisbon. The French service, Ait* France, has been suspended.