Evening star., 1934-02-10
a A|RMA|L LINES
INVOLVED IN ORDER
Cancelled Routes Covered
1900 Mi'es-Companles
Received 81 Million.

T1irty-four airmail routes. many
Of them extensions of lines originally
established under contracts, were in
yolved in the cancellation order of
the President The extensions were
granted by former Postmaster Gen.
eral Walter F. Brown under authority
OF the McNary- Waters airmail act.
The cancellation order did not in
elude Pan-American Always, which
carries airmail and passengers to 20
countries in South and Central Amer
iCa and the West Indies. Pan-Amer-
lean also is operating now in Alaska
and China and is planning trans
oceanic service to Europe and possibly
to Asia by way of Alaska and ST.
IBERIA.
The routes which were Cancelled
were allocated to the various man
agement groups" of airmail con-
tractors as follows,
United Air Lnes-Chicago to
Dallas. Seattle to San Diego. New
York to Chicago, Salt Lake City to
Portland. Chicago to Salt Lake City,
Salt Lake City to San Francisco and
Omaha to Kansas City. This group
operates over routes totaling 6,299
miles. with l.153853 miles of flying
scheduled each month. For the last
month figures were available the
group carried 268 857 pounds of air
mail, or 42.56 per cent Of the total
FOR the entire United States II was
paid S354 Ga by the Fost Office De
partnent for It's months operations,
or 3203 per cent of the total pay
ments for the month.
American Airways.
American AirWayS-BOStOn to New
York. Chicago to Memphis New York
to Cleveland, Cleveland to Fort Worth,
Fort Worth to Galveston, Dallas to
Brownsville, Atlanta to New Orleans,
Chicago to Cincinnati. Buffalo to Chi
cago, New Orleans to Houston, Chi
cago to Atlanta, Atlanta to Fort
Worth and Dallas to Los Angeles.
Over routes totallng 1887 miles in
length, American AirWayS operates a
scheduled total Of 88l 500 miles per
month. The latest monthly report
shows that it carried 126,323 pounds
of mail 90 per cent of the total for
the country that month, and for this
service was paid S3ll.G38. or 28.l5 per
cent Of the whole payments for the
month.
Western Air ExpreSs-Salt Lake
City to San Diego and Cheyenne to
Albuquerque. total Of 1888 miles,
with 122,300 miles of flying scheduled
per month. In the last month COW
cred by official reports the line car
ried 25 992 pounds of mail, for which
1t was paid S5O,299.
Transcontincntal and Western Air
New York to Kansas City Kansas City
to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to San
Francisco a total of 1850 miles. with
602 ,234 miles Of flying month. Dur
ing the last month for which figures
are available the line carried 99.87l
pounds of mail, for which it was paid
S186, ,922.
New York to Florida.
Eastern Air Transport-New York
10 Atlanta, New York to Miami and
Atlanta to Jacksonville, 2,ll8 miles,
with a total Of 2e8 .328 miles of flying
per month. Its latest monthly total
was $500 pounds, for which it was
paid S101956.
Northwest Airways-Chicago to st
Paul and St. Paul to Billings, 1858
miles, with 128,340 miles a month
scheduled. Its monthly total was
1913 pounds and it was paid $4,000
Kohler Aviation Corporation-Mil-
vaukee to Detroit. PSI miles. with
26.4l6 miles month scheduled. II
carried 1868 pounds of mail accord
ing to the latest report and was
paid S7,7Z5 for its month of opera
tion.
Pennsylvania Misunderstanding
TO Cleveland. 321 miles, over which
1880 miles month are scheduled.
It flew 1920 pounds of mail in the
latest month reported and was paid
$2l,l62.
National Park AirWays-Great Falls
Mont. to Salt Lake City. SIT miles
with 6O,024 miles scheduled monthly
It's months total was 1882 pounds
and it received SIS 963.
United States AirWayS-KanSas City
30 Denver, $50 miles, with a monthly
schedule of $4,000 miles. 1t carried
2.227 pounds in the latest month re-
ported and was paid $8,769.
Rates of pay to the various man
agement groups on the basis of total
mileage h0Wn during the past year
ranged from a low of 447 cents per
mile to Pennsylvania Airlines to 81. 7
cents per mile to Transcontinental
and Western Air.
The total mileage flown with air
mail last year by the contracting COM
panles was 35.909.8ll miles, over
routes totaling 27.062 miles in length.
The Government has paid to the
airmail companies a total of S82,-
$4,000 in the last five years, these
payments being offset by the receipt
of S54, 4,453, 900 from the sale of airmail
stamps.