Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-04
FAST DE LUXE AIRMAL LINE
BETWEEN HERE AND N. Y. NEAR
Postmaster General Brown Tells House
Committee Plan for Service That Will
See Letters Delivered in Few Hours.

Ca This line will be extended within
a month to Miami, Fla. An entirely
new passenger and mail line will be
opened along the Atlantic Coast from
Richmond, Va, to jacksonville Fla, at
which points it will connect with the
present inland coastal route.
IL MOnOplanes Ordered.
Twelve twin-engined cabin monoplanes
carrying eight passengers each have
been ordered and six are to be delivered
by Monday. All these planes will be
used on the runs from the National
Capital South, landing at Washington
Hoover Airport as the Northern
terminal. Three giant 18-passenger
tw1n-engined biplanes, the largest planes
in use in the Eastern United States. of
which two have been delivered, will be
used, together with a high-speed tri-
motored type, between this city and New
York. All Is Of these planes will be
used in combined mail and passenger
service.
In addition the fleet will be increased
by three Of the latest type single
engined mail planes, cruising at 1875
miles per hour with 1000 pounds of
mail. These win be added to the mail
fleet for night operations.
The National Capital also will be bene-
fitted by a new working agreement be-
tween two Of the largest Independent
Eastern airmail and passenger systems,
announced today, which will result in
coordination of schedules affecting
$4,000 miles Of flying each "a hours.
The effect will be to extend mail and
passenger service In both directions from
this city into New England and Canada
and south to Miami, the Gulf States,
the Far Southwest, the West Indies,
Central America and South America.
The agreement, in addition to close
tying-up of schedules, provides for joint
advertising and joint promotional &C
tivities.
First Great Expansion.
The first great expansion Of the serv-
ice through this city will occur Tuesday,
when 10 multi-motored airliners will
take OF from this city and other points
along the New York-Atlanta AirwaY,
bound for Atlanta and carrying more
than 100 Government officials, business
men, financiers and aviation executives
Three of the planes will leave New
York Monday spending the night here.
They will leave here Tuesday. Formal
ceremonies will be held in Atlanta.
When the expansion program is COM
pleted there will be IA flights scheduled
daily for mail or passengers between
Washington and New York; daily be-
tween Washington and Atlanta, daily
between Atlanta and Miami and daily
over the new coastal route. This will
call for daily total of 10,500 miles of
flying by this company alone
When Eastern Air Transports expan-
sion program is completed the National
Capital will be the center of some of
the most intensive commercial flying
in the world. There will be "a planes
a day operating between this city and
New York, six to Atlanta, two to Pitts
burgh, and two to Greensboro, N. c.
In addition, Postmaster General Brown
has reported to Congress, his depart
ment is considering establishment of
airmail service between the National
Capital and Pittsburgh, to give this city
a direct outlet to the West, with an
extension Of the line to Norfolk, Va.