“ZOOMING OVER EUROPE.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 February 1925, Page 3

“ZOOMING OVER EUROPE.”

MANY PASSENGER AIR SERVICES

LONDON TO AUSTRALIA

The great development within the past three or four years of commercial aviation of the Old World is indicated by the number of passenger air services which are' regularly run between the capitals of Britain and the European countries. Speaking to an Auckland Star reporter, Wing-Commander 11. Williams, of the Australian Air Force, who has been for tile last two years in the, military and aviation colleges of Chain her ley and Andover, and is on his way back to Melbourne by the Niagara, remarked it was a common and as comfortable nowadays ftp go from London to Paris by air as it was by sea before the war. Not yet quite as cheap, the one-way fare being six guineas, but the air services were gradually getting into competition with the sea services in even that respect. Still, against the present exra cost, -theye was the time saved by an average speed of 100 miles per hour. At present British companies ran services to Paris, to Zurich via laris, to Cologne via Brussels, and to Berlin via Amsterdam and Hamburg. French companies are running to London. to Strasburg. ,to Brussels, to Prague and to Warsaw; German services are maintained between Berlin, Dantzig, Cracow, and Moscow some of them in conjunction with the British companies, to make the London to Moscow trip direct. Other companies are running air services between Prague and 1 hid a Pestli, and 1 rague and Constantinople. Wing-Commander Williams remarked that air-ship construction was mak in S shell steady progress that he fully expected to see air liners flying from London to Australia- within the next five years.