Across The Pacific
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
Canada’S 30 Years
Who said those were the good old days? Thirty years ago, on July 13, 1949, to be precise, when Canadian Pacific Airlines opened its first international route across the South Pacific to Sydney, the flight took 37 hours. Well, 30 years ago, that wasn’t bad going. But things have changed, including, to judge from this first flight photo, the hairstyles and the hostesses’ uniforms.
The airline is now CP Air, the Canadair Fours which pioneered the route - Vancouver, San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island, Nadi, Sydney - having given way to DCBs which in turn, should soon give way to DCWs. Since that first flight, flying time is down to half.