PACIFIC AIR ROUTES
IMPROVEMENTS DELAYED VAST NETWORK PLANNED (10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Plans for a vast commercial aviation network across the Pacific are held up by the inability of the War. Navy and Commerce departments of the Civil Aeronautics Board to work out a programme for the provision of radio directional aids, the building of hotels, and the rebuilding of “run-down” airfield facilities. The services mainly concerned are from the United States and Canada to Asia, across the western and northern Pacific, but the facilities at Canton and Palmyra on .the route to Now Zealand and Australia arc also under review.
The question first to be settled is the selection of an authority to control staff and maintain bases for commercial flying, and the provision of the necessary funds. Official aviation quarters have discussed the possibility ultimately of placing the whole of the Pacific commercial airways network on an international basis under a provisional international civil aviation organisation, but such an arrangement is viewed as being far in the future.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22243, 31 January 1947, Page 5
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