75,000 MILES A DAY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 750, 24 August 1929, Page 30

75,000 MILES A DAY

U.S. AIRWAYS INCREASE RANGE HUGE AERIAL NETWORK Airplanes under American ownership carrying passengers, mail, express and freight will be flying daily more than 75,000 miles by the end of August, according to estimates made by United States Department of Commerce officials in compiling figures of the tremendous increase in air transport in the last few months. Daily schedule operations of domestic air lines have now reached a total of 53,468 miles, as against 45,493 miles a month ago, an increase of more than 10 per cent. Counting foreign air mail and passenger routes to Canada, Cuba, the West Indies and Central American States, the total was 57,453 miles, as against 52,478 miles a month ago. The principal services to be added during the early summer will be the new mail route between Cristobal, the Canal Zone, and Santiago, Chile; that between Columbus and Los Angeles, and a third between Houston and Brownsville. The mileage of domestic air routes regularly operated now totals 15,336, as against 17,502 miles a month ago. The regularly operated foreign air routes increase this to 22,77 S miles, compared with 22,034 miles a month ago. The new services will bring the total to 25,914 miles. The new mail routes added in the last month include the St. LouisOmaha, Lincoln-North Platte and Tampa-Daytona Beach routes. Surveys completed for new routes include those of the Atlanta-Chattanooga section of the Chicago-Altanta airway and the Portland-Roseburg section of the San Francisco-Seattle airway. The aerial survey of the Detroit-Bay CityKalamazoo section of the Michigan cities airway has been completed and the ground survey started.