Pacific Jet Age Be Cheaper,
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It'll Be Here in July Pacific Jet Age Be Cheaper, And (They Say) Not Noisier
The South Pacific enters the jet age of commercial trans it on July 29. And what’s more important, jet transport Dks like ushering in an age of cheaper air fares that is, you don’t mind rubbing elbows with your fellow passengers.
STTAS will introduce the jet ,ge with Boeing 707’s, travelling wice weekly between Sydney London, via San Francisco and Y0rk—13,929 miles in 38 hours, ling speed will be 550 mph. t twice the speed of piston led aircraft. :er, on August 18, Qantas will two more weekly services on Sydney-San Francisco sector ink up with BOAC onwards to on) thus giving Qantas four -Pacific jet services a week, dng details of the new services fdney in March, Qantas chief itive and general manager, Mr. ). Turner, said he thought as “will be six to nine months 1 of any competing all-jet ser across the Pacific”. And Qantas e moment, he said, carried more half of Pacific air travellers. r en Boeings, costing £A50,000,000, ding spares, will operate the ic services, and the round-the l jet services of which the ic section is only a part, e full Qantas round-the-world will start about October, i all the Boeings will have been sred.
New Pacific Times v jet times for the Pacific rs will be: Sydney-Fiji, 3 hours inutes, plus 1 hour 40 minutes he ground; Fiji-Honolulu, 6 > 35 minutes, plus 5 hours 25 tes; Honolulu-San Francisco, 4 ; 50 minutes, plus 2 hours 25 tes. wording to Mr. Turner, the ic air travel future is “very t”. Passengers have doubled r e years, and they will probably Le in less than five years from said first-class and tourist traffic were at present 50-50, ourist-class demand would in e, so Qantas planned to add lomy c 1 a s s”—2o per cent. 3er than tourist class, and of ;r density. It would operate at the beginning in some rs. inomy class would be introduced :he Pacific next year, and ibly on the complete round yorld service, too.
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So on this basis it seems likely that air travel next year will be April 3 by h l C ATA to agre e ement “ Carly April, by lAIA agreement.
New Zealand will not see the new
Boeings “at the moment”. TEAL services from Auckland will connect with the Boeings at Nadi on Tues days and Saturdays northbound, and Wednesdays and Sundays southbound. Qantas services from Melbourne via NZ will connect on Wednesdays, northbound, and Thursdays southbound.
No Noisier Noise The Qantas Boeings are to be fitted with noise suppressors.
According to Qantas, this means they are “not going to be any noisier than other aircraft”. But that doesn’t mean the noise isn’t going to bring comment across the Pacific.
The Boeings make a different kind of noise, to which ears will apparently have to become accustomed before their owners realise that it isn’t a noisier noise at all!