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1932
1932 - 0963.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 23, 1932 Aiv repgmflpoPt: ALASKAN AIRWAYS Pari'American Airways take over Operation P' AN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS announce that a pro gramme for reorganisation of air transport lines in Alaska has already begun with the purchase of 2,500 miles of airways now in operation. Operations personnel drawn from the southern international lines of Pan-American Airways System have already been sent to Alaska to take over, consolidate and expand these lines serving a territory of more than a half-million square miles. Beginning September 1, 1932, the lines are now operated by Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., a wholly owned sub sidiary of Pan-American Airways Corporation, which is taking over all assets, business, and U.S. mail contracts of Alaskan Airways, Inc., a subsidiary of The Aviation Corporation of Delaware. The same system of operations used on the 22,000 miles or the Pan-American Airways System in the West Indies, Central and South America, will be installed as soon as practicable, giving the pilots of aeroplanes two-way radio communication and furnishing the complete reports of the United States Weather Bureau Stations in Alaska and all other data essential to safe air transportation over the terrain covered. Present schedules are to be maintained, and improved wherever possible. New lines will be opened as rapidly as conditions permit, to serve business and tourist travel throughout this important American territory. " We acquired these lines," state Pan-American Airways, " because the vast expanse and geographical peculiarities of Alaska make it especially suited to air transportation and to the Pan-American system of operations. More than $300,000 has been invested in Alaskan aviation, but methods used during two years of operations have not been completely successful. Operation methods used on Pan- American's southern international lines have solved almost identical problems. It is planned to co-ordinate and unify the Alaskan routes, maintaining the type of air transport essential to the future development of the territory. The development of the air routes in Alaska will be carried out in accordance with the well-established policies of the United States Post Office Department, in an endeavour to make these routes profitable to the United States Government, and more effectively to serve the peoples of the territory of Alaska and the United States. " Alaska's large industries are located in widely-separated areas. Fur trapping, reindeer grazing, gold and other minerals, lumbering and fisheries, account for most of its commerce with the United States, which totals over $83,000,000 yearly. A growing tourist trade brings as many as 36,000 people from the United States yearly. " These industries will expand rapidly if provided with adequate transportation, but in the entire half-million square miles of Alaska there are less than 1,000 miles of railroads and 1,500 miles of wagon roads. Many of the sled roads and trails are impassable during a great part of the year. Only regular, dependable air transports, operat ing on regular schedule throughout the year can solve Alaska's transportation problem." AUSTRIA'S AIR LINES ^f—\ ENERAL information on European airways is I *J mostly confined to those of Great Britain, France, \L_JJJ Germany and Holland, and the activities of other countries—especially in Central Europe—are not perhaps so widely known. We think, therefore, that the following information—which we have obtained from data collected by Shell Aviation News— regarding Austria's airways may be of interest to our readers. It has long been recognised that air traffic, if properly conducted, pro vides a ready means of national economic expansion for any nation possessing its own aircraft operating company, since it not only fosters trade by facilitating the constant association of business people, but leads to the opening-up of new and, in most cases, vastly accelerated routes of communication. Austria, with its glorious historical background, the natural beauty of its countryside and its focal position in Central Europe, has not fallen behind its powerful neighbours in the opera tion of an efficient national air trans port system, as in the Oesterreichische Luftverkehrs A.-G. (O.E.L.A.G.) it possesses a very successful commercial aircraft operating unit which carries the nation's urgent, perishable or pre cious mail and freight, as well as pro viding a quick means of conveyance for those travelling for business or pleasure. Formed in 1923, the company operated during that and the follow ing year a service between Vienna and Munich and Vienna and Budapest with three-engined Junkers aircraft in conjunction with a number of other companies belonging to the Trans-Europe Union, which was at the time operat ing aircraft across Europe. It was not until 1925 that Oelag became an independent organisation, although no subsidy was received until 1927, when the Government gave the company its full support and a subsidy which Austrian Air Lines. Main connections shown dotted. 899
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