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Air Transport News
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NEW LINE FOR "BRITISH CONTINENTAL."
TO-DAY (November 1), British 1 Continental Airways, Ltd., will increase its schedule of services to the Continent by a new line to Antwerp and Amsterdam. As recently announced,. the company started on October 12 a line to Lille and on October 14 a route to Brussels..
The new service will leave Croydon at 10 a.m., call at Antwerp at 11.50 a.m. and reach Amsterdam at 12,45 p.m. It will leave there at 2 p.m. and Antwerp at 3 p.m., and return to Croydon at 4.50 p.m. The LondonAmsterdam fares will be £.5 10s. single and 19 18s. return. The LondonAntwerp fares will be £4 and 46 16s, respectively. The service will not be run on Sundays.
A few weeks later, a second daily service, non-stop to Amsterdama will start. On this new line, D.H. 86 machines (four Gipsy Six 200 b.p. engines) will probably be used exclusively. The company is co-operating closely with the K.L.M., which will act for it in Holland.
83 MACHINES FOR IMPERIAL AIRWAYS.
THE 11th annual general meeting of Imperial Airways, Ltd., was held in London yesterday (Thursday). The directors' report shows the present fleet of 37 machines as consisting of
three four-engined flying-boats (Scipio class), four three-engined flying-boats (Calcutta class), two Short Scylla landplanes, eight HeracIes and Hannibalclass landplanes, six Atalanta-class monoplanes, five D.H.86 (Diana class) landplanes, one Argosy trimotor, one Achilles trimotor, two Boadicea bimotors, two Avro 652 Avalon bimotors and three Westland Wessex trimotors.
Five more D.H.86 aircraft are being built, as well as 41 very large machines. Of these, 29 will be big flying-boats for the Empire services and 12 will be landplanes.
The total of passengers carried in the year to March :31, 1935, was 55,745, compared with 50,945 in the previous year. The development in Empire services has increased the ton-miles of pay-load from 2,733,603 to 3,511,528.
AIRPORTS CONFERENCE NEXT JANUARY.
'THE Aerodrome Owners Association 1 (which started as the airports division of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors) is to hold another conference in London about the last week of January, 1935. Two days will be occupied by the reading of papers on airport design, organization and other air-transport matters. The Saturday will be spent in visiting airports near London.
An exhibition of airport equipment will be held at the same time. R.A.S. AIRCRAFT COVER 500,000 MILES.
SINCE Railway Air Services, Ltd., started in May, 1934, its machines have flown 500,000 miles. The January-June (off-season) traffic this year was as much as the May-December traffic last year, and the JanuarySeptember figures were three times as heavy. The London-Belfast-Glasgow line (started on August 20, 1934) is not seasonal and seems to provide steady revenue, especially on the sea crossings.
The connecting ferry between Liverpool, Manchester and the Isle of Man has done particularly well this year. Apart from this, Belfast has been the most paying port of call'.
The Plymouth-Nottingham line is the least promising. The BrightonBristol-Birmingham-Liverpool service, new this summer, has carried fair traffic, particularly between Southampton and Bristol. The ferry service • between Southampton and the Isle of Wight has not attracted the public so much as has the long-standing services from Portsmouth, for people seem to regard Portsmouth as the natural port for the island. Most of the passengers whom the company has taken between the Isle of Wight and Southampton have carried through tickets to Bristol and elsewhere.
Railway Air. Services, Ltd., concentrates on routes which are complementary to train services.