NEW K.L.M. AND B.C.A. SERVICES TO HOLLAND.
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rIN Wednesday, the K.L.M. (Royal \-/Netherlands Air Lines) and British Continental Airways, Ltd., s-6.tied their week-day return service between Liverpool, Doncaster and Amsterdam. The Liverpool Amsterdam fare is £6 single and £10 16s. return.
There are air connections from Glasgow and Belfast, and to and from most of the business, centres of North Europe. Probably the K.L.M. will operate the service for the first few weeks and will run it for the rest of the summer season, up to October 3.
NEW R.A.S. SUNDAY SERVICE.
A SUNDAY air service between it South Wales and the south coast will be introduced on Sunday (July 5) by Railway Air Services, Ltd.
On the outward journey, the aeroplane will leave Cardiff at 9.45 a.m., and is due at Weston-super-Mare at 9.55 a.m,, Bristol at 10.10 a.m., Southampton at 10.55 a.m., the Isle of Wight at 11.15 a.m, and the Brighton, Hove and Worthing Airport •at 11.45 a.m. The return machine will leave the Brighton, Hove and Worthing Airport at 5.40 p.m. and, calling at the same places as on the outward journey, will reach Cardiff Airport at 7.40 p.m.
NEW BUCKS AIRPORT PROJECT.
• A CIVIL aerodrome to cost about £10,000 is to be built at Haddenham, Bucks, near Thame and Aylesbury. Whether the local council aims at serving the Aylesbury industrial area is not yet clear, but there is a shortage of aerodromes in the district.
JERSEY TRAFFIC EXCELLENT.
EXCELLENT passenger traffic is .1-Labeing carried by Jersey Airways, Ltd. There were 2,147 passengers between Heston and Jersey in JanuaryMay', 1936, an average of about seven passengers per trip. The Southampton
Jersey traffic is still about, twice as heavy as the London-Jersey service.
Two return trips daily between Londdri and the Channel Islands are being operated from Whitsun to the end of September. Alderney and Guernsey are linked by air with Jersey.
ORDNANCE SURVEY PROVIDES
WORK FOR AIR COMPANIES. rURTFIER contracts for air photo
graphy for the ordnance survey of Great Britain have been given to Aerofilms, Ltd., Bush House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2. Air Dispatch, Ltd., Croydon, has undertaken some of the flying in the Midlands and Air Commerce, Ltd., Heston, has sub-contracted for a further section in the North. A Williamson camera is fitted in the floor of the latter company's Dragon.
RAILWAY AIR-LINE RESULTS.
WHEN the Railway Rates Tribunal VV sat recently, a passing mention was made of the fact that the L.M.S., G.W.R. and S.R. companies lost .£44,000 on their air services in 1935, and that the policy was to go ahead with the air-line experiment. The L.N.E.R. still runs no air services.
The fleet of Railway Air Services, Ltd. (which acts for the railway, com. parties) consists of three de Havilland
D.H.86 machines, eight D.H.89s and three D.H.84s, as well as two hired B. H.84 aeroplanes.
TOURING FRENCH CHATEAUX.
AFRENCH organization of the owners of historic châteaux has arranged for motor tours to them from the Aerodrome of Tours, which is in the heart of the chateau country. Wrightways, Ltd., has been licensed to run air services between Croydon and Tours, with inclusive fares for eight-day trips covering hotels, tips and motoring.
Wrightways, Ltd., has added a de Havilland Dragon Rapide (D.H.89) to its two Dragons (D.H.84).
BIG MOVES BY BRITISH AIRWAYS.
FOUR de Havilland DJ-1.86A machines now being delivered to British Airways, Ltd., bring that company's fleet of multi-engined aeroplanes up to 30, including three D.H.86s, eight D.H.89s, two D.H.84s, four Fokker F.12s, eight Spartan Cruisers and an Armstrong Whitworth Argosy. The company's Scandinavian service is extended to Stockholm this month and a night mail service is starting to Hanover to connect there with the Swedish Air Lines.
British 'Airways, Ltd., is doing well with the services which it controls in this country.
COMPETITION TO SHETLANDS.
A FTER careful preparations, High/A land AirWayS, Ltd., started early last month its service from:Aberdeen to Shetland, via Orkney: The service could not begin until the wireless direction-finding station at Sum. burgh was opened. The service is being rim daily in July and August.
Aberdeen Airways, Ltd:, inaugurated on the previous day a competing ser vice, This route is being operated daily. There does not appear to be enough traffic for two lines to either Orkney or Shetland.
Highland Airways, Ltd., has the backing of British Airways, Ltd., and has carried the Orkney mails since May 29, 1934. •
AIR LINES TO IRELAND.
1N The Commercial Motor on June 5, 'reference was made to statements that Mr. F. L. Crilly, of Gaily Airways, Ltd., proposed to operate a service to Dublin and Galway, and added that there would be difficulties because the Free State Government had granted a monopoly to a joint Irish-English organization. The Minister of Industry and Commerce has now stated that no service may be started without his permission and that no permission has been granted to Mr. Crilly.
The service which has been run since May 27 between Dublin and the Isle of Man and Bristol by Blackpool and West Coast Air Services, Ltd., and Aer Lingus Teoranta is working satisfactorily, but would benefit from more publicity.
LAUNCHING THE " CANOPUS."
'THE first of the 28 flying-boats for I the improved Imperial Airways services is due to be launched and testflown almost any day at the Short
Brothers works at Rochester. This flying-boat, the "Canopus," is an impressive sight. Its interior is spacious and luxurious.
The others are to be delivered at intervals of a few weeks, but as the first two or three are urgently needed in service, there is some doubt whether one of them may be able to visit coast resorts around England in the height of the holiday season. If this were possible, it would be excellent propaganda for internal air travel.