SPEEDY TRAVEL

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1932, Page 17

SPEEDY TRAVEL

AIR ROUTE PROGRESS HOW TIME IS SAVED Entering Imperial Airways London terminus one can Imy a flying ticket to any one of. more than one- hundred cities throughout Europe, .and'nearly fifty stations along the ; Empire air-lines. Throughout Europe there are some : 20 air travel companies, and frequent conferences are held, between these organisations in order ■to facilitate through traffic by air, arid to reduce to n a minimum the time occupied in estabr £ lishing connections at intermediate stations. . ■ ' ; 3- Ascending from, London by early i- morning services, and breakfasting o wliilo' aloft, business men now arrive c so quickly in cities on the Continent that they can transacf.urgent business ' r and return the same evening, diiiing in i 1 the air on the return journey. l" It is on long-distance ■ routes, howv ever, that time-savings are effected d which, not so long ago, would have ape< peared almost incredible. India in~ six '" days, or South Africa in eleven, are > striking examples. In actnal working s- one gets remarkable instances oi c flights not from end,to end of a route. ;e but between intermediate stations, 01 between some intermediate station, and one or other of the .terminals. Here •t are examplos from.; Africa: First, a d passenger from Kosti. to. Kampala^ By is tlio^fastest surf ace ..transport, this, journ ney Jof about 1000 miles would have >f taken at least twelve days. ' By'airway, c however, ascending at. 7 o'clock one f morning, a passenger reached-his desd tination at 10 a.m. the following day. 3. In another case, a passenger boarded d an England-bound air-mail, at. iKisumu.

He had been ordered by:a doctor to g< to London at once to consult a f amoui surgeon1. The journey, by ordinary transit, would have occupied 21 days but by air it was accomplished ii seven. It is not surprising, therefore that officials returning home on leav< should patronise air travel. Oftei among passengers by the African air mail are Belgian officials quickening th< journeys to and from the Congo.. Out ward-bound they join at Brindi3i am fly-.as far, as Juba. The return jour ney is from Juba to Brindisi. . • Air transport is busy with improve ments and accelerations on its. networl of existing.routes, arid also with .plan: which, should, before long, add .thous ands of -.miles to the air-lines of th< globe. It requires only an. economic re viyal, on a widespread scale, to jbrinj to fruition many important plans. ' Oi the African air-mail accelerations will it is hoped, reduce by several days th< existing schedule of eleven days as be tween London and' Cape Town. A complete scheme has been prepared and is now under consideration, for ex tending the India air-mail to Aiistralii while surveys continue with a view t< the. institution of an air-mail servici across the Atlantic between Europe anc the "United States..' Assuming thatth( problems of-operating an Atlantic ser vice commercially are solved this wil mean that there will be a chain oJ inter-conneetod routes extending righ across the world from America to Aus tralia, after which, to attain. the goa of a completely globe-encircling air mail, experts will have-to grapple witl the problems, which, are formidable, oi forging regular air-link 3 ■ across th< Pacific. ■■■ . .;,. '.■ • HEALTH . . . AND A SLIM FIGUEBI No need to starve yourself into slim ness when there is delicious Peel Frean's^ ■ Vita-Weat. at your service Contains all the nutriment of the,grair without the fattening undercookec starch. Deliqiously crisp. In sealed packets, -from! is.—Advt.. ■.