POPULAR AIR TRAVEL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19841, 16 May 1927, Page 3

POPULAR AIR TRAVEL

LINER FLIGHTS OVER LONDON lAIPERIAL AIRWAYS SCHEME LONDON, April 20. “We want to popularise aerial travel, I and wc propose to give people samples ' before they buy the bulk goods, so to speak,’ ’ an Imperial Airways official I said in explaining the scheme for providing short trips in big air liners over London during the coming summer. “There are numbers of people who come to London for a short stay, and who would like an air trip, but who haven’t time to go to Paris or use the Continental airways. We arc contemplating short flights from Croydon at a nominal fee of two guineas, which will include transport by car to and from London to Croydon. The liners will fly at an altitude of about 5,000 or 6,000 .feet. Our plans are not yet complete, but we expect the scheme will be put into operation just before Whitsun. Following out this policy, wc shall send air.liners to air meetings in, different parts of the country. Big machines flew to the Bournemouth Air Aleeting at Easter, and to the Hampshire Aero Club’s pageant at Hamble in Alay. “Through the prominence given to the casualities among military pilots flying fighting machines, people simply don’t realise that British commercial aviation has had only one fatal accident in the last three years. This Imperial Airways scheme will enable people of moderate means to see the whole of London from the air, and to realise the safety and comfort of modern air travel.”