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1935
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646 FLIGHT. JUNE 13, 1935. Commercial Aviation The K.N.I.L.M.s Neiv Equipment Two of the three Douglas machines ordered by K.N.I.L.M. will arrive in Sourabaya at the end of June, and the third about a fortnight later. August is the date for the faster services. Sea and Air Again Return tickets on the Africa route may now be used on the Blue Funnel and White-Star Aberdeen Lines' joint service to and from South Africa. Passengers will now be able to travel by sea or air in either direction with one ticket. In Manchukuo According to the Fa? Eastern Review, commercial aviation in Manchuria has made rapid strides since the advent of the new State. In February there were no fewer than thirteen regulai air routes operated by the Manchuria Air Transport Company. There is a growing demand for regular mail and passenger services and the use of aeroplanes for conducting special forms of operations in connection with public peace maintenance and for forestry survey and other aerial investi-. gations. To the West One of the mysterious little facts about air route traffic is that far more passengers travel by Provincial Airways to Penzance than to Hayle and Newquay. The Penzance aero drome at Rosevidney is now fully licensed for private use. During the last few days Provincials have done two "stretcher bearing" jobs—one from Penzance to Bourne mouth and another from Penzance to Bath. The second case was originally to have been picked up in the Scillies, but the oply available landing place there is hardly suitable yet for '' Dragon '' operation. Provincial Airways are organising another display at Den- burv, Torquay, on July 14. Children Half Price The three inter-continental companies, Imperial Airways, K.L.M., and Air France, have decided, it is understood, to allow special facilities to school children visiting their parents who may be stationed along the Eastern air route. From mid-June to the end of September children up to the age of fifteen will be able to travel to India or beyond at half fare—or, rather, they will be able to take a return ticket for single fare in order to spend the summer holida 's abroad with their parents. A member of the crew of the aeroplane will be in charge of these juvenile travellers, and special instructions for their care have been issued to the agents and representatives of the companies concerned. Educating the Agents The Royal Dutch Air Lines and the A. B. Aerotransport recently invited seven travel agents from London to travel to Sweden by the Scandinavian Air Express. Mr. Ostelius, the London manager of the A.B.A., and Mr. -de Jongh, of the K.L.M., conducted the party. The trip included stays in Stockholm and Copenhagen, and Capt. Florman, managing director of the A.B.A., enter tained the visitors on his motor yacht at Saltsjobaden and brought them back to Stockholm in the Ju 52 seaplane Sodermanland, which had just come back from its regular trip to Helsingfors. At Kastrup airport (Copenhagen) an earlv dinner was given, and the visitors left the aerodrome by a K.L.M. Fokker F 22 and arrived in London before mid night. More Aerodromes for India With the object of developing aviation in India, the Central Government has asked the Government of Madras to select sites for a number of new aerodromes in Southern India. Six sites have consequently been selected, one at each of the following places : Cuddapah, on the Madras-Secunderabad air route; Kavali (Nellore district), on the Madras-Calcutta route; Villupuram (South Arcot district) ; Rameswaram (Ramnad district), on the Madras-Colombo route; Negapatam (Tanjore district), on what will probably be the air route between Singapore and Madras. The aerodrome at Meenam- bakkam, now used for Madras, will shortly be taken over by the military authorities and another site is to be selected for a civil aerodrome. Sikorsky in England? It is reported that an issue on behalf of Sikorsky Flying Boats (associated with United Aircraft of America) is shortly to be made under the auspices of the British Aircraft Manu facturing Company. Batavia in Six Days On Wednesday the K.L.M.'s new bi-weekly Batavia service to the new time-table was opened. The Douglas machines in use reduce the time of the whole journey to 5 J days; Athens is reached in one, Jodhpur in three, and Rangoon in four— yet no day's flying lasts longer than ten hours. The service starts at each end on Saturday and Wednesday and will be operated throughout the winter. Leeds to Douglas Last week-end Blackpool and West Coast Air Services opened a new branch line to and from the Isle of Man and Yeadon aerodrome, Leeds. The service stops at Blackpool, so that the West Riding people now have the advantage of a direct air service to two of their favourite holiday resorts. D.H. "Dragons" leave Yeadon at 3.30 p.m. and leave the Island at 1-45 p.m. Meanwhile one hears that United Airways are to run over the same route. Bulk Travel by Air An agreement has been reached whereby Imperial Airways and other operating companies in the I.A.T.A. will, in future, be able to issue a form of season ticket covering periods of four months or one year- These tickets, which may be made out to include a family, represent a saving of about 20 per cent, on ordinary fares. The ticket consists of a booklet of vouchers, so that it is an extension of the "bulk travel" ticket, which is already being used, rather than a real season ticket. Direct to Switzerland Early next year it is possible that a new company, Alp Air Line, Ltd., will be operating a daily service directly from London to Switzerland. For some time it has been known that this new company, whose directors are also the directors of North-Eastern Airways, was being contemplated. Negotiations are now well advanced for the use of an air port at Montreux, and there Alp Air Lines will have complete control. Airspeed "Envoys" will be used at first, though it is possible that Airspeed's new design will eventually be ready for use. On such a long-distance high-speed service what can only be called the Douglas type could be used with economy. Another Important Merger Highland Airways, the pioneers oi air travel in the north of Scotland, have now merged with United Airways, which is backed, of course, by the Whitehall Securities group. The company will still retain its own name and the organisation will remain under the management of Mr. E. E. Fresson. This merger has particular significance inasmuch as it will eventually place the south in direct contact with the north by the western route. In the meantime, however, routes will only be developed/where a distinct saving in time and expense can be effected through air travel. Thus, for the moment, the Kirkwall-Aberdeen service will connect with the express trains leaving for the south and arriving for the north. The time-table of Highland Airways' Kirkwall-Aber deen services enables passengers to leave Kirkwall in the morning and to be in London the next morning. Considerable expansion will, however, take places on routes which offer possibilities of development, and the first move will be to connect Aberdeen to Shetland via Kirkwall. The landing ground at Sumburgh is nearing completion and as soon as the radio D'F station, promised by the Air Ministry, is available the Aberdeen service will be extended to Lerwick. The Shetland mail will be carried over the Kirkwall-Aberdeen section. The Inverness-Stornoway route will be the next to be developed through the merger and a trial service will in ail likelihood be operated next month with an amphibian opera ting from Ullapool to Stornoway, the connection from Inver ness to Ullapool being by road. Should this service prove the demand for an air service from Inverness to Stornowav, an aerodrome will be built at Stornoway, with an emergency landing ground at Ullapool, and a direct service will be run next year with land machines in conjunction with the radio ground organisation which is so necessary over this route.
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