AIR TRANSPORT
AUSTRALIAN PLANS POST-WAR DEVELOPMENT PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT CANBERRA,, April. 8. Plans are already being developed by the' Australian Government in preparation for the' tremendous boom anticipated in civil aviation after the war'. The Government spokesman said to-day that these envisage: (1) Nighf airliner schedules linking all the. capitals, with' termini at Townsville and Perth; (2) air transport of freight and all first-class mails; (3) dozen? of feeder services for passengers, apd light, freight, connecting . country towns to the cities and .-.iftterr connecting- large, country towns; (4) two Government international fines, one going east to America and, thd other west on. the Empire, air route'. Full use will., be made of the, hunjdreds of aerodromes that, will have been constructed in Australia by the end of the . war. The Government's plans will give work t.o thousands of men- now in the Royal Australian Air Force. ■■■ ■> . , , . Internal services will, probably be controlled on the same, basis, as. at present, with private companies operating without' competition on set routes under charter from the Government. - -
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21064, 8 April 1943, Page 4
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