IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
HOPES FOR EARLY SUCCESS.
(BIUTER'S IELEQRAU.)
(Received 30th December, 12.30 p.m.)
LONDON, 29th December.
Civil aviation- has got over its "teething" troubles in a manner conferring great hope for the future, said Sir Eric Gcddes at a Meeting of Imperial Airways, Limited. He traced the steady growth of mail and goods Services, and said that in addition passengers were steadily acquiring the habit of travelling by.air. He pointed out that, .thoflgh chief concern had Jiitherto been concentrated in Europe, where most of the principal towns vere^now regularly linked up, they were looking further afield for the near future^ The first aeroplane would leave Cairo for India' not later than the beginning of 1927, after which progress would be made further to the eastward, based on the experience gained over the new desert route. He hoped for a fast connection, mainly through the air, between Basic and Cairo, whkh might became tujwiJblo, , thui enormously incixaiiiig tlie nuving
of time between London and Karachi.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 156, 30 December 1925, Page 5
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