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1935
1935 - 0068.PDF
34 FLIGHT. JANUARY IO, 1935. daily service is being maintained throughout the winter. Mr. Gordon P. Olley, a pilot of very long experience, both with Imperial Airways and otherwise, is managing director of the company, and a lease of Ronaldsway (I.O.M.) has been obtained. Although a Nottingham-Skegness service was run with a "Fox Moth" in 1933, very little has been heard of Eastern Air Services' longer 1934 service, which included Leicester. The trip was not made during the winter. On May 28, 1933, Mr. E. E. Fresson started a service between Inverness and Orkney. On May 1, 1934, his com pany, Highland Airways, Ltd., opened a new service be tween Kirkwall and Thurso, and six days later Aberdeen was connected with the original Kirkwall service, on which 2,000 passengers had been carried in a little over eleven months. On May 29 Mr. Fresson was given the Royal Mail to carry between Inverness and Kirkwall; and on August 6 a twice-weekly service was opened between Kirk wall, Stronsay, Sanday, Westray, and North Ronaldsway. During the winter months the Orkney service is being run. A D.H. "Dragon " is doing most of the work. Although Hillman's Airways, Ltd., concentrated last year on the markedly successful Paris service, on which an average of more than 150 passengers a week has been maintained, the late Mr. Hillman opened a. daily service to Liverpool, the Isle of Man, and Belfast, when Mr. Sword's concern was wound up, and was the first operator ^PUBIS EUROPE to use the new Ards airport for Belfast. At the end of September this service was reduced to skeleton for the winter, but on November 17 it was announced that Hill- man's had obtained the Irish and Scottish mail contract and that the service would be reopened on December 1. This year the company has been taking delivery of D.H. "Rapides," and these have been used on both the Paris and the Glasgow service. One was unfortunately lost in the Channel on October 2. The Jersey Service The rise to prominence of Jersey Airways, Ltd., though remarkable, might, perhaps, have been prophesied in view of the considerable saving of time. Started with a single "Dragon " between Portsmouth and St. Helier on Decem ber 18, 1933, the Heston-Portsmouth-Jersey service has been filling eight machines daily during the season, and six fully equipped D.H. 86s were ordered in November for this year's operations. Despite the difficulties caused by the fact that the beach is used as a landing ground at St. Helier, necessitating a continually changing time-table, 18,530 passengers were carried up to November 10, and even in the winter the weekly average has been in the region of 250. During the season an average of 4.5 passen gers per trip was carried. In July a bi-weekly Paris ser vice was run from Jersey, but this year the trip will be made to Rennes, an important railway junction for the north of France. From September 31 onwards a daily service to Jersey has been continued. From May 31 to October 7 the K.L.M. ran a daily pas senger, freight, and mail service between Amsterdam, Hull, and Liverpool. The company believed that they were fulfilling a need, and, though the traffic figures have not been as high as they might have been, K.L.M. are satis fied with the results of a preliminary year's operation. Aerodrome equipment has not been up to their high stan dards, and Barton was eventually ruled out as a possible stop because of its small size. Fokker F12S have been used. This year the service will be reopened earlier and A TLANTIC OCEAN CajseTowh
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