EMPIRE AIR ROUTE.
BRITAIN-INDIA MAILS. NEW SERVICE VIA PALESTINE. (Received September 1, 7.5 p.m.) British "Wireless. RUGBY, August 31. The progress made with the construction of the great maritime port at Haifa, on the coast of Palestine, makes it possible that Imperial Airways, Limited, will , introduce as an experiment a faster and ) more direct winter air service between Britain and India, beginning in the middle of October. Arrangements have been madi for two Empire air mail services to leave London every week, one on Saturday and the other on Wednesday. The Saturday service will carry the Indian air mail, and after leaving Athens will continue by flying-boat via Cyprus to Haifa instead of via Crete to Alexandria. At Haifa triple-screw land aeroplanes will continue the journey direct across Palestine and Irak to Bagdad. The air mail will arrive at Karachi in less than six days after leaving London. The existing service botween Palestine and Egypt is to be retained and will give connections between Central Africa and India. The new arxangements provide for a direct air service between Britain and Palestine, and it will also be possible now to fly from Kenya Colony to India via Egypt in only eight days.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20967, 2 September 1931, Page 11
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