AN ALL-RED ROUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 7

AN ALL-RED ROUTE

AIR SERVICE VIA CANADA

THE ATLANTIC CROSSING

(From "The Post's" Representative.)'

VANCOUVER, January 2.

The United Kingdom, Free State, Newfoundland, and Canadian delegates to the Imperial Transatlantic Airways Conference, held at Ottawa and Washington, considered three alternative routes: The Arctic route, via the Faroes, Iceland, and GreenlanH; the North Atlantic route, from Ireland to Newfoundland; and the. South Atlantic, via the Azores and Bermuda. English airmen have done pioneer work on the Arctic route, and the Imperial Airways has a tentative agreement with the Pan-American Airways for a South Atlantic service, but Canada prefers the North Atlantic route, on the ground that the Arctic route is.uncertain and the South Atlantic route too long. On the other hand, the United States favours the South Atlantic service, especially in view of the possible extensive service for travellers between New York and Bermuda. It is understood that an English invention counteracts the gathering of ice on the wings on the northern route. When the Transatlantic air mail service is in full operation, eighteen months, hence, Imperial Airways, with tfie backing of the British Government, will inaugurate a trans-Pacific service with Vancouver as its base, according to advices from London. The Air Ministry, impressed by the success of the California-Philippines mail service of the Pan-American Airways, and the overtures of that company for a foothold in New Zealand,, is anxious to speed up aerial development in the Pacific, so that with the trans-Canada air mail as an intermediate link, an alternative All-Red air route to Australia and New Zealand may be in operation as soon as practicable.