Plan To Cover Whole Of Australia By Air
SYDNEY, This Day. Plans by Australian National Airways and other operators to bring half the country residents of Australia within two hours’ flying distance of their nearest capital were announced in Melbourne yesterday by the managing director of Australian National Airways (Captain Ivan Holyman). In the meantime it is expected in Canberra that the Government will go ahead with the establishment of its own air services.
The Cabinet is considering legal opinion on the High Court decision of Friday declaring illegal the State monopoly provisions of the Air Lines Act.
The view shared by several Ministers is that the Government, while bowing to the High Court verdict that privately-owned air lines could not be excluded, should launch. Governmentowned services.
Captain Holyman said the withdrawal of air mail subsidies would malce no difference to the plans of Australian National Airways for expansion in the post-war period. In addition to bringing 50 per cent, of the people within two hours of their capitals, 30 per cent, of the remainder would be brought within four hom-s’ flying time and the balance within eight hours.
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Northern Advocate, 19 December 1945, Page 11
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