LONDON TO INDIA.
REGULAR WEEKLY SERVICE BY AIR. (United. Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 2. The Air Minister (Sir Samuel Hoare), opening the new Croyden Aerodrome, announced that he had initialled th© head of an agreement, between the Government and the Imperial Airways, for a regular weekly service from London to India.
THE PROBABLE ROUTE. WIDE AREA SERVED. (United Press Association—By Electric Tolegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, May 2 The most probable London-India air route will b© Marseilles. Cairo and Bagdad. The existing trip!© screw liner’s trip from London to Paris will be extended to Marseilles. All-metal flying boats, seating 15 passengers, will traverse the Mediterranean to Cairo, where they will link up with the present service to Bagdad and the Persian Gulf, the latter extending to Delhi. It is hoped to inaugurate the service in April, 1929.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17947, 4 May 1928, Page 9
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