Evening star., 1928-12-30
M|-TO-bAHAMAS.
AIR LINE TO OPEN.
Service to Santo Domingo
and CristobaI Also to
Start in January.

The first jor aeronautical develop
r1ent of the new year is expected to be
the opening of operations, on WedneS-
day, of the first of three foreign air
mail and passenger lines linking the
United States with the West Indies,
Central America and South America.
The route to be opened Wednesday
will be operated by Pan-American Air
ways, between Miami. Fla. and Nassau,
Bahama Islands SikorSky twin-nno-
tored amphibian planes, carrying eight
passengers and mail. will be used on
the 210-mile water hop. The route is
to begin operations on the basis of
three flights weekly. all trips beginning
at 9:10 am. and requiring two hours.
A week from Wednesday, January 9,
service will be inaugurated on the Sec
ond of the routes; from Miami to Ha-
vana, Cuba San Juan. Porto Rico, and
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Fourteen-passenge Fokker tri-motored
transport planes will be used over the
,440-mile route and service will be
opened with three flights in each di-
rection weekly.
Overnight Stop in Cuba.
The planes will leave Miami each
Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
II 80 am An overnight stop will be
made in Eastern Cuba and the planes
will arrive at Santo Domingo City about
1890 pm. the next day and at San
Juan at pm. Northbound, the planes
will leave San Juan at 8 am. Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. arriving at
Miami at Sis pm. the following day.
On January IL service will be opened
by the Pan-American concern between
Miami and CriStobal, Panama Canal
Zone, on temporary bi-monthly basis.
The big planes will leave Miami jan
uary IL and on the first and fifteenth
of each month thereafter, arriving at
CriStobal on the afternoon of the third
day. The return flight will begin at
CriStobal January 10 and on the seventh
after.
The Miami-San Juan line will be ex-
tended later to Port-auPrince. Haiti.
The frequency of service on the Panama
route will be increased from the present
bi-monthly schedule, as soon as the
Pan-American Airways receive new
planes which now are being built, and
will be placed On a daily basis, with six
of the big transport planes in the air
on various parts of the line each day.
Postage on the three routes, the Post
Office Department has announced, will
be as follows: On mails to Cuba and the
Bahama Islands, 5 cents for each half
ounce or fraction, in addition to regular
postage; on mails to Haiti, when the
service begins, Santo Domingo and
Porto Rico, 10 cents for each half-ounce
or fraction, in addition to regular post
age, and on mails to the Canal Zone
and for points beyond, to be dispatched
by steamer from Cristobal, IS cents for
each half-ounce or fraction, in addi-
ton to regular postage.
Within the year it is expected, air
mail and passenger service will be
available in an unbroken route from
Montreal, Canada. down the East Coast
of the United States through New York,
Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond,
Atlanta and Miami to Cuba, the Pana-
ma Canal Zone and through South
America to Buenos Aires, Argentina
Completion of these lines will enable
to reach Santiago, Chile, the next Sat-
urday, five days. as against the three
weeks now required.
Two of the connecting routes, con-
Meeting Miami with Cristobal, and the
Canal Zone with Trinidad, are to be in
operation on full schedule within so
days and the third route, from the
Canal Zone to Santiago, Chile, is to be
advertised soon.
Three Lines to BE Operated.
The three routes to be opened during
the next two weeks by Pan-American
Always, under postal contract, will call
for 1895 miles of flying each week
Three air liners, carrying IL passengers
each, are to be operated between Miami
and Havana daily to handle traffic esti-
mated on bookings already received.
BY arrangement with the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad and the Florida
East Coast Railway, through tickets
over the air and rail lines will be sold
to passengers in New York, Philadel-
phia, this city and other Eastern points.
these tickets including transportation
between the railway station and airport
at Miami.
When the service finally is completed
it will be possible for a merchant in
Buenos Aires to travel in one week to
Washington, New York or Chicago. The
two-month Pan-American goodwill
trip of President-elect Herbert Hoover
may be made in less than three weeks
under the new schedules.