AIR MAILS TO INDIA
FASTER. WINTER SERVICE. TWO CONNECTIONS WEEKLY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 31. Progress in connection of the great maritime port at Haifa, on the coast of Palestine, makes it possible for Imperial Airways .to introduce experimentally a faster and more direct winter air service between Britain and India, beginning in mid-October. Arrangements have been made for two Empire air services to leave London every week, one on Saturday, the other on Wednesday. The Saturday service will carry Indian air mail, and after leaving Athens will continue by flyingboat via Cyprus to Haifa instead of via iCrete to Alexandria. At Haifa triple screw land planes "will continue the journey direct across Palestine and Iraq to Baghdad. The air mail will arrive at Karachi in less than six days after leaving London. The existing service between Palestine and Egypt, will be retained and will give through connections between Central Africa and India. The new arrangements provide for a direct air service between Britain and Palestine, and it will now also be possible to fly from Kenya Colony to India via Egypt in onlv eight days.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 2 September 1931, Page 10
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