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Summer Outlook Promising
CHEAPER THAN BY TRAIN.
THIS summer, Norman Edgar 1 Western :Airways, Ltd., will con
_ tinue its Bristol-Cardiff ferry service, which was started on September 26, 1932, also the Bristol-Bournemouth service inaugurated in 1934 and the on-demand week-end service between Cardiff, Bristol, Le Touquet and Paris. An important new feature will be a low-fare high-frequency service between Cardiff and Weston-super-Mare, so soon as Weston landing ground is 'ready. The journey takes 10 minutes by air, compared with three hours by train, and the fare is cheaper than third-class railway rate. An extension from Weston to Birmingham will cater for holiday traffic.
GATWICK TO OPEN NEXT MONTH.
I T is announced that Airports, Ltd., British Airways, Ltd., and the Southern Railway are arranging for the new Gatwick Airport to be officially opened on June 6 by the Secretary of State for Air. British Airways, Ltd., will start working from Gatwick on May 17.
There will be three trains per hour daily between Gatwick and London. The circular terminal building at Catwick is • connected to the railway station by a subway and has radial covered ways, at the ends of which aeroplanes will load and unload passengers.
£600,000 CITY AIRPORT?.
THE City of London Lands Committee, instructed in December, 1933, to consider schemes for an airport in or near to the City, is advancing a scheme to use for this purpose about 940 acres of Fairlop Plain, 10 miles from the Mansion House. The rates finance committee has reported its di§agreernent with the recommendation to establish an airport at an expense to the City rates.
, . The land at Fairlop might be pur SINCE Easter, most of the dozen or more companies which are likely to operate regular air services in Great Britain, thissummer, have published their programmes. The most notable development; apart from the general increase in route-mileage, has been the announcement of a much-extended network of operations by Railway Air Services, Ltd.
The company's routes now cover about 6,500 miles, which is approximately equal to the total route-mileage of all the air services in Great Britain as at last July. Altogether, this year's air lines will have nearly double last year's route-mileage.
A glance at the map now draws attention to the incressing competition between British Airways, Railway Air Services and Blackpool and West Coast Air Services on thegoutes radiating from the Isle of Man, which have always provided excellent traffic,. There is also competition, this year, . from Railway Air Services on the Bristol Channel ferry service, which Mr. Norman Edgar has been running since 1932.
'Highland Airways, Ltd., the pioneer company in the far north and holder of the mail contract between Inverness and Orkney, now faces competition from Aberdeen Airways, Ltd., and (on a proposed Inverness-Perth-Glasgow line) from Railway Air Services; Ltd.
-British Airways, Ltd., is not now competing for the London-Belfast-Glasgow traffic. The east coast of England is practically devoid of air services, except the Southend-Rochester ferry: chased from the Commissioners of Crown Lands for about £270,000. Conduits, roads, demolition and the surfacing of 600 acres might cost £78,000, and airport buildings have been estimated at £200,000. The total would be nearly £600,000. The Court of Common Council will debate the subject.
BRITISH AIRWAYS' NEW SCHEDULES.
RECENTLY, British Airways, Ltd., has commenced to operate three services daily between London and Paris (two on Sundays), one daily between London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Malmo, three daily (two on Sundays) from Liverpool to Blackpool and the Isle of Man, one daily (two at week-ends from May 29) between Carlisle and the Isle of Man, one daily from Belfast to the Isle of Man (Fridays to Mondays until May 20), two daily (not Sundays) between Liverpool and Belfast, and two daily (not Sundays) between Belfast and Glasgow.
CRILLY'S INTERNAL LINES.
ALTHOUGH British Airways, Ltd., has taken over the proposed London-Lisbon service which Mr. F. Leo Crilly organized, and will run this through a separate company (British Airways [Iberia), Ltd.), Crilly Airways, Ltd., still retains its internal services.
This summer there will be two departures daily each way on the BristolLeicester-Norwich and the LeicesterLiverpool lines and one service daily on the Norwich-Croydon and BristolCroydon lines. The company hopes to start, on May 15, a new CroydonSouthampton-Plymouth service, at first once daily. The Nottingham-LeicesterNorthampton service is run on demand and the Sunday service from Norwich to Ramsgate, by way of Ipswich and Southend, will be continued.
Crilly Airways, Ltd., has leased for 10 years new premises, which Leicester Corporation hopes to have completed at its Braunstone Airport in July.