PACIFIC AIR SERVICE
FIRST PASSENGER FLIGHT FIXED FOR SEPTEMBER 14 (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Aug. 8. The inauguration of trans-Pacific passenger flying by Pan-American Airways from Auckland to the United States will take place on September 14. It is also announced that an air freight service from Auckland will begin on August 31. The company's schedules call for fortnightly departures from Auckland on Saturday mornings at 7.30 o'clock, with arrivals at Los Aneeles at 10 a.m. on the following Wednesday and at San Francisco at 2 p.m. • the same day. After overnight stops at Noumea. Canton Island, and Honolulu, the south-bound Clippers will leave San Francisco at noon every other Saturday, reaching Auckland at 4.30 D.m on the following Thursday. A considerable number of applications for bookings on the first passenger flight from Auckland has been received, and it is anticipated that the first Clipper to leave Auckland will have a full complement, including a good representation from New Zealand and Australia. There is also a number of air freight packages ready for the first flight.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24372, 9 August 1940, Page 6
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