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Eec. 1.15 p.m. SYDNEY, October 29. Sydney will be Australia's international airport terminal in the big expansion in air traffic which is planned between Australia and Britain, Canada, the United States, South Africa, and New Zealand.
Details of the new services are given by the Director-General of Civil Aviation, Aircraft Production, and Posts and Telegraphs, Mr. D. McVey, who has just returned from London where he represented Australia at the British Commonwealth Air Transport Council.
Many of the Empire air routes T^ere inadequately organised at present, he said, and the Commonwealth Air Transport Council took preliminary steps to establish the organisation to improve facilities along the routes. Qantas Empire Airways and the British Overseas Airways Corporation would divide schedules and operate in a parallel partnership from London to Sydney.
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These two operators would use the same types of aircraft, carry each other's traffic, and pool their revenue, but would bear their own expenses. The Australian, New Zealand, and United Kingdom Governments intended to adopt a similar parallel partnership with Canada for a trans-Pacific air service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 8
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192STATE AIR LINE Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 8
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