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Mr. Alex Applebaum was taking some of his own travel medicine in February-March—that is, flying off in one direction in order to get to somewhere in the opposite direction. It all comes under these round the-world air tickets.

Mr Applebaum used to be TEAL’s PRO in Australia and as such had a lot of friends in the South Pacific. Now he is District Manager, South Pacific, for Swissair.

All the Swissair representatives are meeting in Zurich this month and Mr Applebaum is taking his wife and daughter for the ride.

They left Sydney by Cathay Pacific Airlines on February 7 for Hongkong, where they’ll pick up a Swissair plane via Bangkok and the Middle East to Zurich. They expected to be back again in Sydney bV A%er this year Swissair wilt introduce Convair jets (the fastest) to their Hongkong-Zurich service, when you’ll be able to leave Hongkong at 5.30 p.m. and be in Zurich at 6 a.m. next morning, local time (If you don’t like to move so fast, you can t still break your journey at Bangkok, Bombay. Karachi, Cairo or Beirut).

Swissair are now using Caravelles on their European services and DCS’s and Caravelles on their Zurich-New York and Zurich-South Amer Alfoough t( this company’s routes don’t come nearer Australia than Bangkok and Hongkong, they maintain an office in Sydney, with Mr.

Applebaum in charge, and evidently find it profitable.