key'll Be Moving

to Moresby

Vhen Super Constellations and later ctras begin using Port Moresby air ip at the beginning of next year, is inevitably going to mean a new itre of gravity for air matters in P-NG Territory.

'o date the air centre has been Lae. t from next year it is going to be resby, and plans are already in id for shifting Qantas headquarters re. Lae cannot take the big planes its present strip and the plan to Id an international-sized strip at lahang has apparently been shelved, he new planes and the new air tre will have advantages—and some idvantages. he bigger aircraft will carry in r trips the same number of pas gers as the present five or six masters per week. This means less uent mails and freight, o counteract this, to an extent, •e will be one plane on the Hong- Si: service calling at Moresby per k. But, in case Territorians get msiastic about this, they are ned that it will probably not be to pick up passengers, as the ice is usually fully booked from tralia. f course, by then, P-NG may not lepending on Qantas entirely. The tralian Cabinet is to consider ther the Sydney-New Guinea route o have another operator—and the lerations are supposed to be taking e soon.