OVER THE ATLANTIC

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 146, 18 December 1933, Page 9

OVER THE ATLANTIC

REGULAR AIR SERVICE

INTERNATIONAL SCHEME

LONDON, December 8. As soon as the Anglo-Australian air m_dl is opened Great Britain will cooperate in an international scheme to establish regular transatlantic services. Two inter-Government conferences will be held in 1934 to consider services over two-suggested routes. The first is from England, over Ireland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Canada to America, and the second from Britain to France, Portugal, Canada, and America. Detailed surveys havo convinced experts that a service to be maintained throughout the years would necessitate the use of both routes, the shorter Arctic airway being available only in summer. Conferences will assign to the various countries different sections to operate and three British factories are working on tentative designs for huge flyingboats for the Azores and the Bermuda section, capable of 180 miles an hour with several tons of mail. Dutch airmen arc attempting a record flight to the East Indies to deliver the Christmas mail. Famous pilots, flying a liner at 180 miles an hour in daily hops of 1000 miles, will leave Amsterdam on December 18 and arrive at Batavia on December 23. On the return trip the liner will leave Ba.ta.via. on December 27 and arrive in Holland on January 1 with New Year's gi&etw&a.