IMPORTANT NEW CHARTER COMPANY.
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(-NNE of Great Britain's best charter 1--/pilots, Capt. William Ledlie, has started his own company, Personal Airways, Ltd., to operate charter services from Croydon, to meet increasing demand. The nominal capital is £10,000, and the other two directors are the Hon. Peter R. I... Beatty, younger son of the late Earl Beatty, and the Hon, Peter Pleydell-Bouverie.
The fleet available will, for the present, comprise two D.H. Dragon Ra.pides, one of the new Dragonflys and a Leopard Moth.
THREE OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS NOW SERVED.
ALDERNEY Airport is ready. Jersey Airways, Ltd., calls there on request between London and Jersey as
from April 6. A new service also leaves Southampton at 11.45 a.m., reaching Alderney an hour later and returning at 1 p.m. Passengers may he taken on to Guernsey by a Windhover amphibian flying-boat.
The London-Channel Islands fares are standardized at £2 19s. 6d. single and e4 195. 6d. return. The Southampton fares are £1 15s, single and £3 return. From Whitson two services daily will be operated from both London and Southampton.
NEW LINES TO DUBLIN.
r-IN March 9, Capt. G. P. OIley, I.../managing director of 011ey Air Service, Ltd., piloted a Dragon on a survey trip over the proposed air-line routes to Dublin, which the company expects to work, this summer, in conjunction with an Irish organization sponsored by the Free State Government. The machine flew from Croydon to Bristol, Dublin, the Isle of Man, Liverpool, Dublin, the Isle of Man and back to Croydon,
TWO BIG OCCASIONS FOR AIR TRANSPORT.
THE Grand National race at Aintree, on March 27, and the departure of the liner " Queen Mary " from the Clyde gave air-taxi companies two opportunities of good business.
When the " Queen Mary" sailed 'down the Clyde, a dozen or more charter machines circled around while photographs and films were taken for the Press and news-film companies. Birkett Air Service, Ltd., sent-a Puss Moth, a Leopard Moth and a Miles Merlin to meet the ship at Southampton. Air Commerce, Ltd., also sent a Leopard and two Puss Moths for photographs of the dry-docking manceuvre.
British Airways, Ltd., sent a fourengined De Havilland 86 to Liverpool for the Grand National, also a specially chartered Spartan Cruiser, which returned late and landed at Heston at night. British-American Air Services sent a Dragon Rapide and a B.A. Eagle. Birkett Air Service, Ltd., landed a Puss Moth near the racecourse, and Air Commerce, Ltd., sent a Leopard Moth. 011ey Air. Service, Ltd., also had heavy bookings.