DUTCH AIR LINE

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 8

DUTCH AIR LINE

SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA PROPOSITIOX SUBMITTED The head of the Dutch Air Line. Sir. PlesKinnii. flew to London to confer with Mr S. M. Bruce on tlie posseibility of immediately extending the Amsterdam-Batavia air route to Australia. Tlie Dutch will offer, it is understood. to carry mails without a subtly or a guarantee of a minimum amount of freight, provided that a small surcharge may lie imposed to < over expenses. An official told a representst ive of llu' Daily Telegraph that it is not desired to infringe on Imperial Airways’ projects. (in the contrary, tlie Dutch line is prepared to withdraw front Australia directly Imperial Airways is ready to ojk'H an AllBed route. In tlie meanwhile, the official said, it is ridiculous to deprive Australia of the benefit of immediate air communication with England and Europe. Tlie Dutch aeroplanes, by speeding up. and flying from Amsterdam to Batavia in nine days, could reach Australia in 12 days, enabling mails to lie landed in Melbourne within 14 or 15 days. The Dutch fly to Batavia via Buda Best and Bagdad, whereas Imperial Airways mails are conveyed' hy rail to Paris or Brindisi, involving file loss of a day before being transferred to aeroplane.