Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-08
LINKS WEST INDIES
WITH i. S. BY AIR
Cuba, Porto Rico, Haiti and
Dominican Republic
Are on Route.
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,nEy the Associated Press.
| MIAMI, Fla, January Dust year
after Col. Charles A. Lindbergh blazed
the "Lindbergh Circle" on his good will
flight through the West Indies and
Central America, Americas first inter-
national air passenger system will be
inaugurated over 400 miles of that
famous route.
The new mail-pasSenger line, which
will bind five nations with the United
States as the first step in the operation
of an airway that is to link the Amer
icaS. will be opened formally tomorrow
Just a year ago Lindbergh was
rounding out his Latin American good
twill tour. blazing a trail which he
hoped might be followed by air liners
of the future in linking the nations of
Central America and the West Indies
more closely with the United States
His hopes seemed to be another one of
the youthful hero's far-Sighted wishes,
which few thought would be fulfilled
in less than a decade.
Through balmy winds and across tur-
quoise waters, air passengers will be
flown from Miami to Havana. CANA
guey, and Santiago in Cuba; on to Port
AL Prince. Haiti: Santo Domingo City,
Dominican Republic, and San Juan,
Porto Rico at the far tip of the west
, Indies.
While this 1.440-mile route is flown
three times each week in huge tri-
.motored passenger planes, daily service
will be maintained between Miami and
Havana, lmile flight. Nassau. the
British resort in the Bahamas. will be
served from Miami three times a week
by an eight-passenger amphibian.
Passengers from New York, Chicago
or any other central point in the United
States will be able to purchase through
air-mail tickets to their destinations in
Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Por-
: to Rico or the Bahamas. The fare. &C
cording to officials of the air line, will
be approximately $25 more than the
regular rail and steamer fare for the
trip.
Mail Contract Given.
Mail contracts awarded by the Post
Office Department under the Kelly for
eign air mail act will serve to speed the
delivery of mail to the five countries to
the south through which the airway
passes.
Three through trains from New York
and intermediate points daily, making
direct connections from Boston, will
provide thorough service for pasSen-
, gers and mail to Havana; two trains
from ST. Louis and three trains Gaily
from Chicago will provide the same ac-
commodations. The new air-rail COM
bination will clip from to 10 hours
from the fastest previous time to Ha-
lvana from New York and provide Chi
tcagoans with 44-hour service to Ha-
vana instead of from SIS to 70 hours by
rail and steamer.
Fleet of 10 Planes.
A feet of 10 multimotored planes,
some of them land planes and some
amphibianS, are to be used on the in
ternational routes of the Pan-American
Airway, Inc. They are radio equipped
with a special receiving and transmit
ting apparatus.
An air passenger terminal at the new
Miami airport will provide extensive ac-
commodationS for the air voyagers.
The Pan-American Always, Inc. OPP
orators of the new route, also holds
contracts for mail service between
Miami and the Panama Canal Zone,
via Havana and the Central American
republics. The routes are part of an
extensive system of airways planned by
j. T. Trippe, president of the operating
company, of New York.