EMPIRE AIRWAYS
LONDON TO INDA Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 10 a.m.) Tho Air Minister (Sir Samuel Hoare), in opening the new Croydon aerodrome, announced that he had initialled the heads of an agreement between. the Government and Imperial Airways, Ltd., for a regular weekly service to London and India.—Australian Press Association-United Service. THE PROBABLE ROUTE. LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3, at 11.20 a.m.) It is most probable that the Lon-don-India air route will be Marseilles, Cairo, and Baghdad. The existing triple-screw liners’ trip from London to Paris will bo extended to Marseilles. All-metal flying boats, seating fifteen passengers, will traverse the Mediterranean to Cairo, where they will link up the present service to Baghdad and the Persian Gulf, the latter extending to Delhi. It is hoped to inaugurate the service in April, 1929.—Australian Press Association-United Service.
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Evening Star, Issue 19856, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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144EMPIRE AIRWAYS Evening Star, Issue 19856, 3 May 1928, Page 5
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