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Aviation History
1938
1938 - 0502.PDF
176 FLIGHT. FEBRUARY 24, 1938. ENCADINE EXPRESS ; Non-stop to St. Moritz: An Experiment with Possibilities : The High-Altitude Landing Ground at Samaden : Some Comments from the Passengers1 Point of View A IR travel is still something of a luxury commodity, /\ and it is only to be expected that those services I \ which are useful to the holiday-maker should, generally speaking, be the most flourishing. The man or woman who is on vacation is not only ready and willing to pay for comfort, but is also especi- ally interested in useful speed, since this speed in- evitably lengthens the period of the holiday. In this country, for instance, the most handsomely sup- ported air services of the non-ferry type are probably those to Jersey and the Isle of Man, while, Continentally, Swiss- air's London-Zurich service is a particularly good example. The distance in this case is great enough to make air travel in the modern manner effective and saleable; the prospective traveller compares some twenty hours of earth- bound motion with a mere three and a half or less. In the summer the Zurich service is operated jointly by Imperial Airways and Swissair, but for reasons which are well known and which, in any case, cannot be gone into here, the Swiss company, with its Douglas D.C.2S and D.C.3S, have so far carried most of the traffic and have developed a reputa- tion for reliability and safety which is second to none in Europe. When Imperials take delivery oi their new Ensigns, how- ever, the position may be rather different, and it is pos- sible that with these forty-seater machines arrangements may be made whereby complete parties, organised by the travel agencies, may go by air, thus helping to start another phase in air transport. If anything comes of this idea, Swissair will themselves need to purchase machines of the D.C.4 (the first of which has left the jigs) or big Boeing calibre in order to take their own part in the opera- tions. It is not, of course, possible to transport travellers actually to their destination, and the terminal in Switzer- land is at Diibendorf airport, Zurich. There are, however, more than a dozen suitable aerodromes and landing grounds in Switzerland, and anybody who wishes to do so can, weather permitting, charter a machine at Zurich and so
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