CLIPPER SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23718, 26 July 1940, Page 6

CLIPPER SERVICE

PASSENGER FLIGHTS FIRST. ON AUGUST 24 INITIAL MAIL TRIP FINISHED Passenger flights in the Pan Ameri. can Airways service from San Francisco to Auckland will tentatively begin on August, 24. Approval of th© flight, marking a further stage in. the full realisation of the company's service plans in the South _Pacific, has heen given by the Civil Aeronautical Authority in Washington, according to a Press Association cablegram received from Washington yesterday. The message added- that the flight would probably be preceded by a preview trip from Los Angeles on August 10. Officials and Pan American directors would travel by the Clipper on that flight. "Passenger flights will be taken up in our stride," said Mr. W. J. Mullahcy, base manager for Pan American Airways in Auckland, yesterday. "Scheduled trips will be conducted, in the meantime, the next Clipper being due here next Thursday. The Clipper leaving Los Angeles on August 10 will be here five days later." The first regular round-trip in the mail service recently inaugurated was completed after a 17-hour night flight from Honolulu by the American Clipper. which arrived at San Pedro yesterday, according to another cable message. The complete flight of nearly 14,000 miles occupied 13 days, including a stay of two full days in Auckland.