Third Trans-Pacific

Service Starts in July

IT is expected that a third trans-Pacific service will be in operation shortly.

This will be operated by Canadian Pacific Airways, using four-engined Canadian built, pressurised aircraft (Canadair Fours, somewhat similar to Skymasters but with Rolls Royce Merlin engines).

They will carry 36 passengers.

The first flight will leave Sydney on July 22 and thence every two weeks, for the present. Later, it is expected that the service will be increased and that Auckland, NZ, will also be a terminal.

Stops between Sydney and Vancouver will be Nadi (Fiji), Canton Island, Honolulu, San Francisco. At present, CPA are not permitted to set down passengers in San Francisco.

The way was left open for CPA to come into the Pacific service when nego tiations between UK-Australia-NZ. on the one hand, and the USA, on the other, were completed in mid-1946. Pan Ameri can World Airways and British Common wealth Pacific Airlines began services immediately negotiations were completed; CPA’s plans were indefinite at that time.

With restrictions on dollars and the extremely high cost of trans-Pacific fares, it might be imagined that there would be little room for a third operator. However, the general public will, no doubt, welcome the advent of CPA in the hope that com petition between the three operators will eventually force down fares.

Each company now has something a little different to offer patrons. CPA’s specialty is to be day-time flying with nights spent in hotels as the Company’s guest. This hotel accommodation will be nrovided at Nadi and Honolulu.

Fares by CPA will be £ll/10/- less to Vancouver than BCPA. The Union Steam ship Company are the CPA booking agents.

Mr. W. Woollett, the special representa tive of the new Airline, already has been established in Sydney, in the offices of the Canadian Pacific Railways, in Union House.