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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 November 1955Vol. XXVI, No.4

[?]Antas Goes

p. 119 · Read in the full issue

Forward

IANTAS Empire Airways major I fleet of aircraft now consists of 110 Super Constellations —with b more on order to arrive in 1956 bpported by six Skymasters and ler smaller units for New Guinea fernal services.

Santas route mileage—with ser es to the UK, USA, Africa, Hong ng. Japan, and Pacific Islands— cunts to a grand total of 62,000.

B company employs a staff of hit 5,000 —and for every £ re ired in revenue only 6d is profit, mess and other statistics are set [in a beautifully produced book idoing duty as an annual re t, just issued for the year end [ December, 1954—but with some I facts and figures interpolated. |antas has come a long way ;e its bush beginnings in 1920tact clearly emphasised by the rent report.