Arizona republican., 1922-06-25
AIRLINE JOURNEYS
ABROAD SAID To Be
CHEAP AND SAFE
If One Feels Like Flying
There Is Now Little to
Prohibit, According to
Late Advices.

WASHINGTON, June 24-Ameri-
can tourists who visit Germany this
summer can fly from Berlin to Ham
burg for about s2.25-less than a
third of the fare from Washington to
New York, a comparable distance.
A single trip ticket costs $50. marks.
The value of the German mark at
this writing is about one third of an
American cent.
The rate includes carriage of
moderate amount of baggage, ac-
cording to consular reports. There
is now daily passenger, mail and
freight service between Berlin. Ham
burg, Dresden. Leipzig, Bremen, Ha-
mover and Magdeburg. The trip
from Berlin to Hamburg takes about
four and a half hours, including
stops.
You can go from Berlin to Dresden,
about the distance from Washington
20 Philadelphia. for 500 marks. the
present value of which is about s1.75
in American money. A service from
Dresden to Prague is to be estao-
Iislaed this month.
Railroad fares are about one sixth
of what they are In the United
sSIdIeS, COHlpuISN ~aAiAClA -
Airplane passenger rates are about
orle-third higher than railway rates.
Fares on all the routes have been
reduced to attract tourists this sum-
nie-.
There is further evidence Of the
cheapness of German values right
here in Washington. An almost ex-
act imitation of a popular safety
razor which sells for S. is being sold
in the capital for 80 cents and blades
at % cents a dozen. American blades
of the same type are sold at 81
dozen; at cut rates sometimes at 50
cents.
Air Mail Safety Record
The American air mall has passed
the million and half mark IN mile
age without the loss of lie. rms
includes daily flying on regular
schedule over the Rocky and Sierra
Nevada mountains, the toughest fly
ing country in the world
From July of last year to the end
Of Nav this year mail was carried by
air from New York to San Francisco,
more than ] 500. 900 miles, without a
fatality incurred in actual mail car
rying. Early in that period-on July
t6-a pilot was "ferrying" an empty
plsne from Reno to San Francisco
and was killed in landing. Since
that time there has been no loss OF
life. for any reason in the air mail
The service is striving to complete
whole year without fatality ana
seems likely to accomplish this re-
markable feat. for the forst flying
weather of the year is over. ana mia
weather is in prospect from now un-
til July 16.
The air mail service was four years
old on May IS, and its present per-
Torrance average around 80 per cent
or comparable with that OF the best
railroads
Few figures for commercial flying
for recent veriod are available, but
The santa Maria. a flying boat IN
service between New York and At
lantic City, has flown more than 20
000 miles a distance equal to the
eircumference of the earth-without
: an accident.
Figures generally support the. con
tention of the National Aeronautlcal
association that flying is not merely
becoming a safe means of transpor-
sation but has already become so,
Aviation interests complain that
sirplane wrecks are given pubhclty
out of proportion to their occurrence
when the number of passengers car
ried and miles flown are considered.
After the recent wreck between
Paris and London the Illustrated
London News recalled that in ~
only three passengers out OF AZ 2os0,
carried 452 600 miles had been killed.
For each fatality the commercial
planes had Travelled a distance equal
to six times around the world.