LONDON TO BRINDISI

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 98, 27 April 1935, Page 9

LONDON TO BRINDISI

EMPIEE MAIL SERVICE

REMARKABLE RESULTS

(Keceived April 27, 11 a.m.)

LONDON, April 26.

The London-Brindisi air-mail service, which will commence shortly, will take outward Australian mail, reducing the time to Brisbane to 11J days and enabling a later posting from London. The service will not carry inward mails,,from Australia,' as departures from. .Brindisi do not connect with Europe-bound machines. A previous cable message announced that Imperial ■.Airways on April 28 would inaugurate a one-day passenger service to Brindisi until September 30, calling at Paris, Marseilles, and Rome, leaving London on Sundays and Wednesdays, and connecting with the African and Australian services whereby Australia-bound passengers would be able to travel all the way by air, if accommodation was available. The flight of 1352 miles in six-passenger machines, occupying twelve hoursy will save eighteen hours on the present LondonBrindisi journey. The service,/which is the forerunner of the'proposed development of Empire services, will be Imperial Airways' longest one-day flight on the European schedule. It does not connect with: the inward service from Australia, and does not affect the mails either way. {