Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-16
LONGEST AIR ROUTE
TO OPEN TUESDAY
New Service viii Connect is
Nations and Colonies of
Two Americas.

| Service between the United States
and South America over what is called
thu worlds longest airline will be in
auguTated Tuesday by the New York,
Rio and Buenos Aires Lines, with ex-
tension to this city and New York
later in the Spring
Local ofhces Of the lines have been
opened in the National Press Building
here by william P. MacCracken. jr.,
former Assistant Secretary of Com
merce for Aeronautics, who now is
chairman of the board and chief exec
| utive officer Of the air transport COM
pany.
The service will connect Is nations
and colonies of the Americas and will
nring the most distant capitals of South
America as close to the United States
as Florida is to Oregon by rail.
Cuts Sea Time IL Days.
Planes will leave simultaneously from
Santiago. Chile and Miami, Fla, 5000
miles apart, to cover the intervening
distance In eight days. The fastest
steamer time between the two cities Is
20 days. Travel time between Miami
ana Buenos Aires Is to be cut from 10
Gays by steamer to z days. The planes
VIII serve directly 80 ports Of call on
regular schedule.
establishment of the ''Nyrba" Line, as
It Is popularity known, and its competi-
tive line, Pan-American Always, which
also serves the west coast of South
America, Is regarded as Of great COM
mercia1 significance. The Department
OF Commerce places $4,000, 000, 900
value on the Eastern trade route link
ing the Americas. Along this route, it
Is said, 70 per cent Of the total world
trade OF Latin America Is concentrated.
The airline provides service to coun-
tries which represent 65 per cent of
the total population of Latin America,
70 per cent of It's total wealth and 81
per cent OF its postal activity, It is
claimed
Creation Of these two American
arway systems constitutes one of the
romances OF aviation. They face the
stiheSt opposition and competition in
South America from the subsidized lines
OF German, French and British COM
panles, which are seeking vigorously to
gain a foothold in South America.
Service Started In August.
The New York, Rio & Buenos Aires
Line opened its first air service ON the
South American continent August 81,
1929, Pan-American having preceded 1t
on the west coast. The first Nyrba line
was between Buenos Aires and Monte
video, Uruguay. The line reduced travel
TIME between the TWO caplLaLS from 10
hours by steamer to 80 minutes by
plane.
On September service was inaugu-
rated over the backbone Of the Andes
between Buenos Aires and Santiago,
the planes flying through Upsallata
Pass, $4,000 feet high. The trip by air
requires eight hours, as against nearly
two days and nights by rail-
BuenoS Aires and Bolivia were linked
by air November 81 on a 1,0e9-nile line
through central Argentina to Yacuiba,
where connection Is made with the
Aero-Lloyd Boliviana for service to La
PaZ. Three days later service was ex-
tended from Buenos Aires to Mar del
Plata, Argentina.
During the past month the hrst
major divisions northward were put into
operation between Buenos Aires, Porto
Allegro, Santos and Rio de Janiero; Rio
de Janiero and Pernambuco Natal, For
taleza and Para, at the mouth Of the
Amazon River.
On the first Of this month there were
6,109 miles Of Nyrba atrways in regular
operation, and the company was oper-
ating nearly 10000 miles weekly on
regular schedules.