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1933
1933 - 0593.PDF
FLIGHT, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933 "B i-jf s. MB* */s*¥ GW r-'ixKi ••* «, >•- <V.W ¥\m$< mst^vr. :* i J ^ Brussels, as seen from a Sabena airliner. mention are those being operated at the time of writing. When the short summer services to the Belgian coast close at the end) of the season landings are made at Ostend by the ordinary main route liners on request. One feature of the Sabena schedule for October is that of passengers for Brussels or Antwerp or Cologne happen to have a preference for travelling with Imperial Airways they can gratify it on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, when I.A. run tfte service. Sabena give all the comfort and luxury common to the best air lines to-day, and they guarantee safety as far as it is humanly possible by operating only three-engined aircraft, equipped with wireless for constant communication with aerodromes. There are special rates for children, 10 per cent, of the full fare being charged for juveniles under three, and half fare for those between three and seven. The Belgian Congo, of course, is also a sphere of air development for Sabena, where all the chief towns are being linked. Plans have been devised for a service between Belgium and the Congo, and several instructive survey flights over the route have been made. It will certainly come into being in the near future. Incidentally Handley Page aircraft have played an extremely useful part in the pioneer flying in the Belgian Congo. A schedule of the services operated is as follows: London- Dusseldorf, via Brussels, Antwerp and Cologne ; London-Cologne, via Brussels and Antwerp ; London-Malmo, via Brussels, Essen, Hamburg and Copen hagen, this service being the Baltic Air Express operated in conjunction with Imperial Air ways and Air-France. London-Prague, via Brussels, Essen, Halle / Leipzig, with, on Sundays only, connections at Essen to and from Dortmund and Berlin, these services being run in conjunction with Imperial Airways, Air-France and Czecho- slovakian Air Lines. CZECHOSLOVAKIA /^\WING to its central position, Czechoslovakia is a fairly ^ important country as regards air transport. Besides certain other European airlines passing over its territory, there are two main national air operating concerns. One of these is the Ceskoslovenske Statni Aeroline (C.S.A.), or Czechoslovak State Airlines, which, as its name implies, is a State-owned undertaking. C.S.A. was founded in 1923, with headquarters in Praha, and operates the following routes, carrying passengers, mail and freight:—(a) Praha-Brno-Bratislava-Kosice-Uzho- rod. (b) Bratislava-Zagreb. (c) Praha-Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad)-Marianske Ltizne (Marienbad). Traffic on the C.S.A. system has increased steadily year by year since its inauguration, after the first experimental service between Praha-Kosice in 1923. For instance, in 1924 the total number of kilometres flown and passengers carried were 207,000 and 426 respectively, as against 570,000 km. and 8,000 passengers in 1931. The equipment used by C.S.A. is mainly of national con struction, and includes the following:—Aero A35 and A38 (single-engined). Letov S.32 (three Walter engines), Avia F.VIIb-3m. (Fokker licence), and Caproni Ca.97. The other company is the Ceskoslovenska Letecka Spo- Praha (or Prague), the modern part of the town built on the site of the old Ghetto. (Photo, courtesy Cedok, Ltd.) 941 D2
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