From Pacific Across

North Pole

To Europe

Commencing In May, 1955,

a new commercial air route,

envisaged, surveyed and planned

by Canadian Pacific Airlines,

will enable this company to offer the fastest transportation between the South Pacific and

Europe.

The new route, which will link up with the present South Pacific ser vice, will be from Vancouver to Amsterdam via the North Pole. It is 1,000 miles shorter than the most direct present route from Western Canada via Montreal and across the North Atlantic.

A chain of excellent airports is already in existence along the entire polar path. President of CPAL, Mr.

Grant McConachie, who visualised the polar regions as a shortcut be tween continents some years ago, said that at no time during the 17 hours’ flight between Vancouver and Amsterdam, would an airliner be more than 90 minutes from an airport. The proposed route has been under extensive study for the past two years Amsterdam has been chosen as the European terminus because it is equidistant from most of the prin cipal cities in Europe. It is also a ‘‘free port” where passengers in transit are not required to pass through Customs or Immigration clearances.

The 4,825-mile polar route will rv'obabiv be flown in two stages.

Each of these will be considerably less in distance than the 3,180-mile Honolulu-Fiji span regularly flown now by Canadian Pacific. Weather conditions on top of the world will be generally more favourable than in the latitudes used on most air ro ™? s between the continents.

The Traffic manager for CPAL in Australia, Mr. N. R. McMorran, said in Sydney recently that permission to operate the service had now been obtained from the Canadian Gov ernment. When the inaugural flight takes place in May, 1955, Canadian Pacific will become the only airline ln the world to provide a service which crosses the equator, the in ternational dateline, and the Arctic Circle.