EFFICIENT AIRWAYS
CAIRO BASRA SERVICE > “100 PER CENT. REGULARITY” British Wireless—Press Assn.—Copyright RUGBY, Sunday. During the first year of its operation on the Middle East route of the Imperial Airways, Limited, 91 scheduled services between Cairo and Basra were run with 100 per cent, regularity. The average lateness of arrival was never more than 30 minutes, while
134,000 miles were flown in 1,400 hours. The average speed of the journeys was 100 miles an hour. The total mail carried exceeded 103,0001 b. in weight, and the number of letters is estimated at nearly 1,900,000. The number of passengers carried in the first eleven months was 1,133. The mail carried by air on the Middle East route normally reaches Basra in 30 hours.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 8
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