Germany Plans to Extend Airlines

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 4

Germany Plans to Extend Airlines

Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copynjht. LONDON, August 21. A German plan to establish air lines from Ireland to the Continent across the heart of England is revealed by tho ‘Daily Express.’ Tho Junkers firm proposes to run passenger aeroplanes from Queenstown via Dublin, Liverpool, and Hull. Transatlantic passengers will bo picked up at Queenstown find raced to Hull, where seaplanes will carry them across tho North Sea Jo Copenhagen, Olso, aud_Stockholm, thereby saving from thirty-six to »h irty-eigbt hours. There will be a roimccting air line from Hull to London, linking up with the present Paris-Berlin-Vienna service. It is expected that tlic time between Dublin and London will also be reduced from twelve hours to three hours. It is stated that tho idea was priginally submitted to .Imperial Airways and rejected. Junkers enthusiastically took it up. The ‘Daily Express's’ aviation export points out that Germany is at present operating 14,500 miles of European air routes, Franco 8,800, and Britain l,0l)o. Germany’s .160 air lines fly 40.000 miles, and Britain's twenty-one liy •4.000. 'The ‘ Daily Express ’ editorially describes as humiliating and alarming this British record of disgrace, and asks: “Arc wc lo witness .the stagger■ ing speelaelc of German aircraft living regularly across England f Neither self-respect nor common sense can allow it.” Mr E. E. Guest, M.P., says that unless England is careful the airway to the Capo, the most valuable within tho Empire, will also_ be captured by foreigners.—Australian Press Association. |

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