[?]o Super-Connies

On BOP Route

r is reported from Lae, New Guinea, that a Qantas Airways official there has said that when e new aerodrome is completed at idzab (26 miles from Lae) and im ovements are made to Jackson’s, >rt Moresby, the company will use iper-Constellations on the Sydney ;w Guinea Bird of Paradise ser 3e, instead of the present Sky aster aircraft.

A press officer of the company in r dney said on March 6 that it ipeared to him highly unlikely

at Super-Constellations would be

ed on the Sydney-New Guinea rvice, even when the airports were i to that standard. He said that e kind of aircraft used on a route .s not merely a matter of airports: l e Super-Constellation was a ecialised aircraft, suitable for long ternational hauls and with an ective range of 3,000 miles.

Fhis seems sense. It is PlM’s guess at Super-Constellations may at me time use the airports men med—when they are on the way somewhere else, such as the Far st; and that when Skymasters are Dlaced by something better, it will by an aircraft more suitable for e Sydney-New Guinea service. [t will be remembered that a aple of years ago DC6’s were leduled to go onto this route and i in fact make one trip. How er, when a BCPA DC6 crashed ortly afterwards in America, the 26 service to New Guinea ceased.

Passengers boarding the Orient er Orsova in Suva in February in ided: Sir Ragnar Hyne, retiring def Justice of Fiji, and Lady Hyne, und for England; Ratu Sir Lala kuna, bound for England; Mr.

H. Ragg, Suva Post Master, with :s. Ragg and family, bound for ielaide on vacation: Mr. and Mrs. rl Corbett: Mr. and Mrs. Stinson, nior, and Mr. Allan Winsbury, of hie & Wireless Ltd., who was ned by his wife and daughter in ickland, bound for England on npletion of service in Fiji.

Mr. Allan Aikens, of Cable & reless Ltd., Suva, and Mrs. Aikens, ivelled to New Zealand on dough in February.