LINERS AND AIR TRAVEL.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 31 August 1928, Page 12

LINERS AND AIR TRAVEL.

With-tho growing popularity of the airplane as a transport, tho International Mercantile Marino Company has decided to extend its servico to the Homeric. Arrangements have been completed for airplane sorvice from Cherbourg to Paris in conjunction with the Majestic and tho Olympic. Within tho next few months, one of tho commercial airplane transportation Companies, working with tho trans-continental rail-

road systems, will inaugurate an air-and-rall servlco from New York to Los Angeles. The traveller will fly by day and use tho trains at night. Tho schedulo will enable n traveller to go from tho Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific In two days. This will cut the time now required, in half. At tho present time commercial aviation in the United States is undergoing ;i remarkable development. Air ports are being built in tho principal cities. Recently it was found that more than 700 hangars wero under construction in various parts of the United States, and the Government has established a network of air mall lines, which are being operated under yearly contracts. As yet, however, tho ships of tho air have shown scant Indication of replacing tho ships of the sea as common carriers in a large way. One of the most prominent American shipping men, with extensive experience in tho trans-Atlantic passenger trade, in discussing the'possibility of tho airship replacing the modern trans-Atlantic liners, said that, while this might come a few generations hence, ho would have no hesitancy in having the keel of a now 1000-ft liner laid down at this time. It is his opinion that such a ship would not become obsolete within the next tivun-ty-flvo or thirty years.