New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-03

FL in which Europe has taken
q such strides since the war,
has to-day developed for the
first time in infantile air history to
the complete air timetable stage.
A booklet of twenty-five pages, COM
bining times of arrival, departure, rates
for passengers, mail and express, the
types of service and complete informa-
tion that travellers or shippers require
in connection with two International
and five international French lines, is
now off the press here and available
In MI the tourist Offices and news
kiosks on the boulevards.
Frances most important interna-
tional air lines, advertised in the
unique timetable, originate and ter
inmate at lie Bourget, the aerial
"Grapd Central' of Paris, just outside
the capital. Here the Grand Express
Company and the French Air Lines
Company, with four aerial trains"
daily, seek to maintain their depar-
lures and arrivals as advertised on up-
to-the minute schedules. The first de-
parture of the day from LIE Bourget,
the timetable divulges, is $50 a m,
arriving in London at 1900, with pas
sengers and mails. The next is at
l@:45-two planes, ore of each com
pany-one carrying merchandise and
mails only, arriving in London at 3:15
p. M, and the other, with passengers
and merchandise, arriving in the Brit
ish capital at s AZ p. m. The last trip
o. the day for passengers and mail
starts from Paris at a p. m. and ends
in London at $50 p. m.
The timetable warns passengers that
the French time indicated is French
summer time" and notes all the little
peculiarities of air travel, mainly the
price, the amount of baggage that may
be carried, the rate for excess baggage,
insurance and other features, Express
merchandise rates are also given, along
with the peculiar requirements of air
shipping. Postal rates are likewise
tabulated, together with exact hours
and minutes on which letters destined
for airships may be deposited in post
tihces, either in Paris or in the prov
ince.
Five international Lines
Fly in All Directions
of the five international lines desiq-
rated in the worlds first "air time
table" there is the Paris-London line
the. Paris-Brussels and Amsterdam
line, the Paris -Strasbourg- Prague and
Warsaw line, the Toulouse (France).
Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga (SpainO
and .Rabat and Casablanca (Morocco
Africa) line and the Bayonne, Bilboa
and Santander line, the latter a coast
wise route from France to Spain in
view of the Pyrenees Mountains.
For the benefit of travel in the south
Of France one of the two International
French lines operates from Bordeaux
on the Gascogne-Atlantic coast to
Toulouse. where connections NAV be
made with the line which Jumps to
Spain and across to Africa. Another
of these lines operates between Nice,
the social capital of France on the
Mediterranean, to Avignon and Mines
two historic cities of the south. Avip-
non, a picturesque assembly of ancient
streets and houses, was known in 1900
as the refuge of the Popes when the
war between the Papacy and the
Italians became too YARN for the eccle-
slasts. Mines, which retains much of
its Spanish character in ancient archi-
lecture, is to-day the one city in
France known as the home of bull
fighting.
Thus, with seven lines of air travel
exclusively French-all in operation
to-day and connecting with other lines
OF other nations almost everywhere,
there begins an excuse for intricate
aerial timetables, the first of which
anywhere is believed the twenty-two-
page pamphlet just issued here
indicator Aerien, as the first
timetable is called, shows on it's cover
the autographed likeness of we'll
dressed man and woman alighting with
their baggage from the aerial express.
The couple have pleased expressions on
their faces and the man wears
monocle, holds glove jauntily in one
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