American Airlines
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In the South Seas
The long-heralded American Air ines services across the South Pacific >egin in August.
The flights, by 707’s, start August from New York, and August 3 from lydney. There will be seven services . week. Three of them will be from Jew York to Sydney, two from New r ork to Auckland and two from Jew York to Fiji, terminating at Jadi.
American would have liked more srvices to Sydney, but can’t get uthority, and thus it decided on the nusual step of terminating at Nadi.
Northbound services will depart *om Sydney on Saturdays, Sundays nd Mondays—the Sunday service utting down at Nadi and the other vo flying direct Sydney-Honolulu. forthbound services leave Auckland n Tuesdays and Thursdays, flying to [onolulu via Pago Pago on the uesday and via Nadi on the Thurs ay. Northbound services from Nadi spart Wednesdays, Thursdays, ridays and Sundays—all flying to awaii direct.
The President of American Air nes, George Spater, will be in in August for the inaugura -3n of the services and is expected 1 make a statement on frequencies, e said last year in Sydney that merican Airlines wanted a minimum lily frequency across the Pacific, id expected to spend millions on Ivertising the South Pacific to tract people from the eastern and id-western areas of the US.