Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-28
Demand for Closer Links and
Gain in Use of Service
Cause Changes.
CAPITAL GETS "SHUTTLE"
New York to Washington
Route to Have Ship
Added May 5.

airmail service In this country will be
taken this week, when airplane sched-
ules will be doubled on more than
5000 miles of routes from the National
Capital to New York and between the
Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Every
portion of the country will be benefited
by the resulting increase in speed Of
mail handling
The increase, which will mean a
doubling of the number of mail flights
made daily, is a result not only of the
tremendous increase in the amount of
air mail which must be handled, but
also a demand for even closer air
mail connections in all parts of the
country.
Service to Be Daily.
On the Washington New York line
service will be doubled, effective next
Sunday, May 5, and a stopover at Bal
timore will be added If a suitable field
is provided in that city. Not only will
the daily service be doubled, but the
service will be increased from six days
to seven days a week, Sunday flights
being scheduled
The new schedule provides that an
additional southbound plane shall leave
New York at am. daily, arriving at
Philadelphia at $50 am. and in this
city at am. Northbound the plane
will leave Washington at Gas pm, ar
irving at Philadelphia at 8:25 pm. and
New York at pm.
The increased service is being inau
gurated as shuttle" to provide di-
rect connection with the planes operat-
ing over the New York-San Francisco
line under the new double schedule,
which will go into effect Wednesday.
First Anniversary Of Line.
The doubling of service on the Wash
ington-New York line also will COM
memorate the first anniversary OF the
establishment of the New York Atlanta
air mail line by Pitcairn Aviation, Inc,
Government contractors, who will oper-
ate the new service.
Since the service was established in
May, 1928, there has been a 200 per
cent increase in the amount Of air mail
handled on this route, 1t was an
nounced. During the month Of May,
1928, the planes carried 1922 pounds
of mail, while the unofficial figure for
last month was 25,297 pounds.
During the past few months the
Pitcairn line has been extended from
Atlanta to Miami, Fla, connecting With
to Cuba, Haiti the Dominican Repub-
lie. Porto Rico, the Bahamas, Mexico,
Central America and South America.
A line also has been opened between
Miami and Tampa.
New Night Service Planned.
Doubling of the service between New
York and the Pacific Coast will give
New York mail second morning" de-
livery on the West Coast. A new night
transcontinental service will be inaugu-
rated over the 2,731 miles OF Arrays
between New York and San Francisco
and Los Angeles. This will eliminate
the present overnight layovers OF mail
at both ends of the route and Will speed
up deliveries by at least IL hours.
The double service already Is In oper-
alton between New York and Lincoln,
Nebr., the extension of the double serv-
ice from Lincoln to the two California
terminals awaiting only the completion
of the new lighted airway between Salt
Lake City and San Francisco over the
Western mountain section.
Time Overland Is Cut.
Under the new schedules mail posted
In New York before pm. will be de-
livered in San Francisco at 4:30 am.
on the second day, after being in tran
sit only one day and two nights. The
same schedule will apply to eastbound
mail. At present mail on the East or
West Coast is held over IL hours en-
route and is not delivered until the
third morning after mailing.
The new service will bring points as
far west as North Platte, Nebr.. within
one days delivery time OF New York.
Mail for points as far west as Cheyenne.
Wvo.. will be delivered within "a hours
after leaving New York.
Cities of the main route will also
gain many hours In the transfer OF the
mail both east and west. At present
there are 10 connecting lines, and their
schedules will be arranged to provide
the closest possible connections with the
transcontinental.
Southwest Route Speeded.
The new Omaha Kansas City-St.
Louis air mail route will be opened We'd
nesday, bringing speedier service to both
Southwestern and Southeastern cities.
Oklahoma, which has previously come
into Chicago, will be transferred at
Omaha over the new route, making con-
nections at Kansas City with the pres
ent Chicago Dallas line. Letters for
Southeastern States will go from Omaha
direct to st. Louis to connect with the
Chicago-Atlanta route at the latter
point.
Albany, Schenectady and five other
upper New York State cities viii be on
direct one-day service with the West
Coast through schedule changes, con-
Meeting with the transcontinental at
Cleveland. New services on the Pitts
burgh- Cleveland route will be started
so that Pittsburgh, McKeesport and
other Western Pennsylvania cities will
meet the transcontinental at the Cleve-
land terminal
Flying time OF the mail planes serving
Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon
tana will also be changed to benefit
mailers in these States.