IMPERIAL AIR SERVICES.
ROUTE TO INDIA. EXTENSIONS”PROPOSED. (British Oflicial Wireless.!
RUGBY, Jan. 13
Imperial! Airways will open, ini April a 5000-miles : Empire mail route which will bring India within, six days -of London . The- journey will t>e made ixl dailystages. .. Passengers and mails leaving London, om the,- morning of the first day by a Handley-Page-N-apier air liner will fly to Basle. There they will take train unider the Alps to Genoa, where, .on the second day, -they will em'bafrk on allmetal flying boats and cross the Mediterranean ito Cairo. That flight will take two days. The flight across' the desert from Cairo to Basra, via Baghdad, will bo made o-n the- fourth day, while the journey down the Persian Gulf to: Karachi will take the remaining two days. It is proposed to- extend the route across India to Calcutta and then, via Singapore, to Australia. A branch line from Capetown will ultimately connect with the main -line at Cairo.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 15 January 1929, Page 5
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