AIR PILOTS TO STOP EXPRESSES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 39, 12 September 1930, Page 5

AIR PILOTS TO STOP EXPRESSES

FRENCH PLAN TO AVOID PLANE DELAYS PARIS, July 22. Arrangements whereby an aviator in difficulties may stop an express train and transfer to it his passengers and cargo have just been made between the Air Union and the Paris-Lyons-Mediterran-ean Railway Company. The step has been taken to avoid loss of time on the services. No pilot may stop a'train unless he is unable to continue his flight. Other expresses from Lyons to the south are to be halted at Pas des Landers, the nearest station to the Marignane Aerodrome, so that mails destined for West Africa and South America can be put on to waiting aeroplanes. The P.L.M. Company is so confident of the success of this system of linking railways with air services that it has given orders for the printing of special forms bearing the heading ‘"lnternational Railway and Air Letters.” Before very long, the company predicts, we shall see the formation of a company of "rail and air expresses,” similar in its organisation to the International Sleeping Qar Company. . _