FIRST PASSENGER FLIGHT—SEPTEMBER 14
THE CLIPPER PACIFIC SERVICE GQOD BOOKINGS INDICATED [Pen United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, August 8. Tho inauguration of transpacific passenger flying by Pan-American Airways from Auckland to the United States will take place on September 14. It is also announced that an air freight service from Auckland will begin on August 31. The company’s schedules call for fortnightly departures from Auckland on Saturday mornings at 7.30 o’clock with arrivals at Los Angeles at 10 a.m. on the following Wednesday and at San Francisco at 2 p.m. the same day. After overnight stops at Noumea, Canton Island, and Honolulu, tho south-bound Clippers will leave Sau Francisco at noon every other Saturday, reaching Auckland at 4.30 p.m. on the following Thursday. ■ A considerable number of applications for bookings on the first passenger flight from Auckland have been received, and it is anticipated that the first Clipper to leave Auckland will’ have a full complement, including a good representation from New Zealand and Australia. There are also a number of air freight packages ready for the first flight.
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Evening Star, Issue 23650, 9 August 1940, Page 11
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178FIRST PASSENGER FLIGHTSEPTEMBER 14 Evening Star, Issue 23650, 9 August 1940, Page 11
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