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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1960Vol. XXX, No. 12

Longest Routes

p. 139 · Read in the full issue

It Will Have The Longest Routes

Trans Australia Airlines in oduction into New Guinea ser ves in July is a step towards aking it the largest internal rline in the British Common ?alth. It will achieve that dis ruption after it takes over all e internal flights at present \ing run by Qantas, in Sep mber. The New Guinea in rnal routes will give TAA an Iditional 7,519 route miles, and total of more than 37,000 miles.

Domestic American airlines aerating on America’s easi est routes are the only other rlines that may exceed TAA’s 3W network. TAA is owned by \e Australian Government.