Transpacific Air Service Resumption
(Received 2.0 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 30.
Resumption of the Pan-American Airways’ service to New Zealand has been brought closer with the delivery of the first 73-passenger Boeing ’plane designed for trans-Pacific and transAtlantic services.
The machine is making a flight to China this week. Six of these four-motored flyingboats, the world’s largest, will be delivered before June, when, simultaneously with Imperial Airways, PanAmerican Airways will inaugurate the trans-Atlantic service.
The date ie net yet fixed for resumption of the service to Auckland, but the company informed the Associated Press that it would not be delayed by the service to Europe. “With six Boeing machines, besides the Martins already flying to China, we will be able to handle both oceans,” said a Pan-American Airways official.
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Northern Advocate, 31 January 1939, Page 6
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