AIR TRAVEL RUSH
COOK STRAIT SERVICES MORE TRIPS NEEDED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. A further increase in the record number of holiday bookings experienced this year by the commercial airlines operating in New Zealand, has necessitated Cook Strait Airways arranging for adidtional extra services between. Wellington ■ and Blenheim on Saturday. In spite of the fact that the majority of services are being more than trebled on Saturday, which will be the airways’ busiest day, three more trips will be made from Blenheim to Wellington and return. Saturday will be the busiest day in the history of Rongotai aerodrome, Wellington, and, if the services are flown as scheduled, a new record will be established for the number of commercial aircraft using a New Zealand aerodrome in one day. The addition of three more services to the already enlarged programme of Cook Strait Airways, will mean that 29 airliners will arrive at Rongotai on Saturday and 29 will depart. Of these machines five of the a rivals will bo Lockheed Electros operated by Union Airways of New Zealand Limited, and the remainder Cook Strait Airways machines.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 14
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186AIR TRAVEL RUSH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 14
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