By Bcpa
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To London Via Canada
ANA Acquire Interest in Hongkong Airline
(COMMERCIAL flights from Sydney to J London via Canada in only six days are now possible.
Leaving Sydney by BCPA Skymaster, passengers reach Vancouver, Canada, four days later, after spending a full day in Fiji and Honolulu.
In Vancouver they connect with a North Star Airliner (Canadair-4) on the new Trans-Canada Airlines “coast-to coast” service, which in turn connects at Montreal with TCA’s trans-Atlantic service to London. A total distance of 14,318 miles is covered at an average of 2,386 miles per day.
During the whole trip, the passenger has no hotel fees—the stop-overs being in cluded in the fare paid in Australia, thus avoiding dollar expenditure.
It is of interest to note that when Aus tralian National Airways Pty., Ltd., ap plied to the Australian Government some months ago for a licence to fly from Australia to London via Mexico, their application was refused.
It was announced on June 6, that ANA had acquired an interest in a Hongkong airline—Cathay Pacific Airways, in which one of the oldest-established trading companies on the China coast, Butter field and Swire, are also interested.