The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-24

One who twice spent considerable time in
these unvisited areas on the Prince of Mo-
naco's deep sea exploring yacht claims that
he pick out a series of spots where, in
perpetual dead calm, not only fixed supply
and relief stations (like floating lighthouses)
can be established for the transatlantic air.
lines but broad rolling grounds" for planes
to break their journey, in new "air lanes"
to run from the Florida coast or New Or
leans, or Houston Tex, via the Bahamas to
the Canary Islands, Madeira and Cadiz-and.
"once started, never be outside the reach Of
rescue planes from the nearest station, all
the way across and regularly in sight of
such stations!"
In discounting air travel the danger is to
foresee too little. From January l to Sep
TENDER /, 1920, the five companies plying
between Paris and London carried 1887
passengers. In eight months! Yet during
the past eighteen weeks Ito about Septem-
Der 24) more than $500 passengers had
gone by the planes of the same five COM
panies instead of by boat and train! so it
may be judged how considerable YVES the
rush in those September days and a short
period preceding them.
In the last month for which figures are
available Ito September 24) the air travellers
in and out from the two ports" of Croydon
and Cricklewood, London, numbered 1,060
In one single day lately the arriving and
departing expresses at the terminal aero
dromes of Paris Brussels Amsterdam car
ried sixty-eight passengers in addition to
mails and urgently consigned parcels.
Fares Recently Reduced.
The recent reduction in the fare from Is
to 10 guineas paris $50 francs. say $40) for
one way trip between Paris and London
brought a material increase in traffic. For
next spring. when the single London-ParIs
fare may be less than guineas, rolling
stock &C.. is already assured on the as
sumption that the travel will start in more
than tripled-and who knows what beyond
that? A guineas fare to Paris will mean
that Londoners are obtaining air transport
at an average 100 miles per hour. accom-
panied by motor car transport between air
ports" and cities. at rate for the whole
which works out only a small fraction over
l franc per mile (not klometer). This is
Z cents for the American traveller who can
cash a check on New York.
Specially designed passenger aeroplanes
lately put these Continental anyways
have proved far more comfortable and at
tractive than any converted war machines
could hope to be. One new express" carries
pilot and eight passengers at a maximum.
near the ground, of 1870 miles per hour
The passengers sit in armchair seats, lux
uriously padded The "parlor car" which
they occupy is totally enclosed and draught
proof, and there are wide side windows from
which they obtain full view of the piano.
rama below.
And. although the schedule Croydon-Le
Bourget london Paris) time is two and
half hours, this new express" flies so fast
that II frequently cuts off the half hour and
even more. This means that, allowing for
motor and car connections between the cities
and air ports and the passing of customs.
passengers may on occasion travel through
from the steps of hotel in London to those
of another in Paris in total of four hours
and less--a saving of six hours over the best
average door-to-door trip by train and
steamship