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AUCKLAND TO ’FRISCO PASSENGER SERVICE FORTNIGHTLY TRIPS SEPTEMBER OPENING (I’d- Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The inauguration of trans-Pacific passenger flying by Pan-American Airways from Auckland to the United States will take place on September 14. It also is announced that an air freight service from Auckland is to 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. on the same day after overnight stops at Noumea.' Canton Island and Honolulu. The southbound Clippers are to leave San 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 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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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20321, 9 August 1940, Page 8
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