GREATEST AIR ROUTES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 188, 11 August 1931, Page 9

GREATEST AIR ROUTES

By the end of this year Great Britain will possess air services covering routes totalling 40,000 miles. These will connect almost every part of the Empire. There already are airways to Egypt, Persia, India, and South Africa, and re cently the Indian route has been ex tended a further 5,800 miles by the service between Karachi and Port Darwin in Australia. Before the end nf the year over 3,000 miles will have ■■ been added to the African air routes. I At the moment the United States is i still a little ahead of Britain with air routes totalling 38.000 miles, but these arc all services within the country. ! Britain’s air routes are mainly external. . Before the end of the year Britain will i have outdistanced the United States in > air-route mileage, and it will then ' possess airways covering almost doul.-fe ! tho mileage of any other Europe,-m . country. France has less than 20,600 ■ miles of airways, while Holland, whose colonies are to be found in all par's, of J tho world, has only just over oo 'l miles.