The New York herald., 1922-05-21
AIR TRAINS SPEED
BETWEEN ALL GREAT
CITIES ON CONTINENT
Aerial Time Table Now Is
Necessary Part of Every
Tourists Outfit.
26 LINES FROM LONDON
Service Is Constantly Being
Improved and Safety Is
Unchallenged.
2e LINES FROM LONDON
Special Gable to THE New YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1922, by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, May 20.

Special Gable to THE NEw YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1922. by THE New YoRK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, May 20.
A new time table of the aerial routes
has been issued by tie Aerial Travel
Bureau, and it is now possible for one
TO look up air connections with most
parts of Europe and North Africa, just
as one would decide on train. Sue
cessful service has made the time
table practical necessity.
There are twenty-six regular routes
in operation in and out of Croydon
airdrome, eighteen of which are con-
Quoted by Great Britain, four by
France and four by Holland. Daily
there are nine services to and from
Paris, two scheduled to Brussels and
two from Brussels and the same for
Amsterdam.
The guide gives graphic idea of the
extension of aerial transportation on
the Continent. Under Belgrade one
reads: Leave Croydon in the after
noon. reach Paris at 8. leave following
morning at 6, arrive Prague at 2, wait
half an hour. depart again and reach
Budapest in the evening, reach Bel
grade at 10'-whch makes about forty
hours of travel. This service Is avail
a BILE daily and beginning in June will be
further extended to Bucharest and Con-
stantlnople. Passengers leaving Lon
don later in the afternoon can fly to
Warsaw via Paris in twenty-six hours.
Another interesting route outlined in
the guide includes stops in Spain and
Morocco. 1t is possible to fly to Paris,
take a train to Toulouse, catching an
.lir ,1at is,f Ia ,it,1 .ta
Barcelona and Alicante, spending the
night in Malaga. and arrive at Casa
blanca at 10 the next morning.
1t is both possible and practical to
leave ones hotel in London and take
off in an airplane at Croydon within
the hour. to go to any point in Europe,
excepting Russia, by air. The terms
are not only not exorbitant, but. fig
lIring on the longer time required by
trains. with sleepers. meals and hotels,
actually amount to about the same, and
in many cases are actually cheaper than
travel by boat and train. The services
are growing extensively. and il is be-
lieved the summer months will inaug-
urate a new era In commercial aviation.
AS result of intensive competition
by British and French cross channel
lines. further reduction in rates has
been proposed, making the cost equal to
if not less. than by first class boat and
train. In, the Channel air traffic the
British hold the supremacy. doing about
three times the business of the French
firms. with the result that lesser rates
have been proposed by the French. but
the British are prepared to meet them.
There Is every indication that before
many weeks it will be possible to travel
from Trafalgar square to the Place dc
lOpera in three hours, cheaper than by
boat and train and in one-third the
time. In addition, the airplane COM
panies claim, in their advertisements n
greater factor of safety in air travel
than by other means. and back up the
claim by statistics that cannot be chal-
lcnged