New Air Charter Service

For Pacific

ANEW passenger and passenger-freight service, to operate to New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies, Malaya, New Hebrides, New Caledonia and other Islands ports has been launched in Syd ney. Headquarters are at the Rose Bay flying boat base.

Registered in New South Wales for charter or air transport, within Australia or overseas, Trans Oceanic Airways Pty.

Ltd. expects to begin its service this month with five Sunderland Mk 111 fly ing boats, which are fitted for any variety of operation.' The first aircraft to be used is fitted with 14 seats, in de-luxe accommodation, and an additional six passengers may be carried with less pretentious seating.

Mr. Douglas Lindsay, business manager of the company, has stated that these long-range, four-motored flying boats will be fully licensed for day or night flying, both within and without Australia, and will be equipped with two-way radio and all advanced navigational aids. The oper ating crews, said Mr. Lindsay, have been chosen from top-rate ex-RAAF pilots and air crews, with wide experience in flying these aircraft in the Pacific and in other parts of the world.

The company does not intend to oper ate any regular airline routes for the

present, but will fly on charter, or on a “go as you fill” basis. A flying boat is capable of carrying a payload of 10,000 to 15,000 lbs, depending on distance.

The managing director is ex-Squadron Leader Bryan-Monkton, late of the RAAF, who has had considerable experi ence in Pacific flying, and has been con nected with aviation for the past 14 years. The business manager, Mr. Lind say, was attached to the RAF during the war, and. until recently, was an executive of Aero Vias, of Brazil, with headquarters at Rio de Janeiro. Prior to his South American activities, he was connected with aviation in Canada.

This new flying boat service should prove popular among Islands residents in these days of congested air travel.