ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA
NEW DAILY AIR SERVICE STARTING WITHIN FEW WEEKS MELBOURNE, Jan. 6. A daily air service for civilian passengers between Australia and England wilL probably be running within a few weeks. The service will be operated with Avro York aircraft by the British Overseas Airway Corporation from England to Colombo, and by Qantas Empire Airways from Colombo to Australia. For the Australian end of the service the United Kingdom Government has made available Lancaster transport aircraft. Perth will be the first landfall in Au.-l ralia on the England-Australia ru; but it is likely that the service will go through to Sydney, where it will link with the Tasman Airways service between Australia and New Zealand.
This new service is not connected with that now operated between England and Australia by way of the United States and New Zealand by the R.A.F. Transport Command for war purposes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25737, 8 January 1945, Page 3
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