EMPIRE AIR ROUTE.
FIRST STEP ARRANGED,
CAIRO TO KARACHI BAY. LINERS TO CONNECT. By Telegraph—Press' .Issn,— Copyright. Received Sept. 2, 7.50 p.m. London, Sept. 1. The first big step in the establishment of an Empire air route is definitely announced by Imperial Airways to commence on New Year’s Day. Five large passenger mail aeroplanes, triple engined and developing 1200 h.p., will be employed. Ono will leave Cairo on alternate Wednesdays, connecting with the Peninsular liner from England. It will land at Baghdad on Thursday. Passengers and mails will there be transferred to another air liner, which will fly via the Persian Gulf to Karachi, arriving on Saturday in time to connect with the trans-India train for Delhi and Calcutta. The return flight from Karachi will be commenced on the following Thursday, Baghdad being reached on Saturday and Cairo on Sunday in time to connect with the liners for Marseilles. Through passengers will spend three nights in specially constructed rest houses in. the desert, and will save five to eight days on the journey from London to India.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1926, Page 7
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177EMPIRE AIR ROUTE. Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1926, Page 7
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