AIR TRAVEL.
RECORD PROPORTIONS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dee. 22. A further increase, in. the record number of holiday bookings experienced this year by commercial aiilines operating in New Zealahid has necessitated Cook Strait Airways arranging for additional extra sendees between Wellington and Blenheim on Saturday. In spite of the majority of the services being more than trebled on Saturday, which will be the airways’ busiest day, three more trips will be made from Blenheim to Wellington and return. 1
Saturday will be the busiest day in the history of Rongotai Aerodrome, Wellington, and if- the services .are flown as scheduled a neiv record will be established for the number of commercial aircraft using a- New Zealand aerodrome in one day. The addition of three more services to Cook Strait Airways’ already enlarged programme will mean that 29 airliners will arrive at Rongotai on Saturday and 29 will depart. Of these machines five of the arrivals will be Lockheed Electras operated by Union Airways, and the remainder Cook Strait Airways machines. - 1
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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172AIR TRAVEL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 21, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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