PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 23527, 16 March 1940, Page 13

PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

ROUTE THROUGH 108 ANGELES i “ •PNSimN Tl PMPMAL ■■ !• • ■ Press Association-*-!)? Telejrsph—Copyright . i NE W YORK, March 14. A Washington message states that, arguing that sot few passengers and so little mail wen» expected on the New Zealand air service that the United States Oovernmjent scarcely knew if it was worth a subsidy on the proposed basis of operation, without taking into account the dktra cost of a route through Los Angeles, the Civil Aeronautics Authority’s attorney, at a public hearing, opijosed the request from Los Angeles tUat the service should make contact wsth that city. The attorney declared his grave doubi that Pan-Amer ican Airways had established proof that public convenience and necessity (required the* service, which proof wak necessary for e aubsidy. j

[A message from Washington oa March 7 stated that the Civil Aeronautics Authority !|tad reached a decision that Pan-American Airways’ New, Zealand air line should be delayed at leash until the public ?. hearing on March 14 of the complain j; of Los Angeles City against the proposed route. The Loe Angeles authorities desire that the company’s planes should make contact with the city, although the proposed United States terminal Is near San Francisco* Civic pride and Jport rivalries are involved. Los Angeles is seeking to revise the official (examiner’s report, on the approval of'which final authorisation will be given Pan-American Airways to start the service. The report dia. approved the route passing _ through Los Angeles, because it considered it unnecessary to i maintain terminal facilities in view of the hourly airway connections with San Francisco.] i . ■ THE AUCKLAND lA$E V ■i - M DETAILS UF FIRST FUMT i .“1 , [Fib Unitxd Fatal Asaocunoa.], AUCKLAND, March 15. Officials of Pan-American Airways ig Auckland have received no details of the first regular mail‘flight to be mad* on May 15. ! , The result of the public hearing of the claims of Los Angeles for inclusion as an airport have not yet been received, but the Boeing Clipper on it* first regular mail flight will follow th«i same route as in November last.