Evening star., 1938-10-09
A|R[|NES READY
FOR WINTER RUSH
Nearly 10000 Expected to
Fly to Favored Sun or
Snow Resorts. 4

NEW YORK, Oct 8.-American air
travel for pleasure Is definitely head
ed for the greatest winter season in
its history, extensive plans now being
laid by air lines for the coming rush
of winter business indicate.
The silver wings of giant airliners
this winter will carry vacation abound
Americans to California, Florida,
Mexico, the West Indies and Bermuda,
the snowfields of the Laurentians in
Canada, the ski grounds of Sun VAL
ley and almost to the tip Of South
America. The West Indies, Mexico
and South and Central America ex-
pect some l47,000 passengers by air
during the six winter travel months
and California and Florida likewise
are getting ready for great infiuxes by
plane. Hundreds of passengers will
use the airways for the first time as
a mode of pleasure travel; others who
have flown in previous years will COM
mute for the week end in Bermuda,
Nassau, Florida and even on the West
Coast.
An Committing Introduced.
Both Pan-American and Imperial
Airways, for instance, now sell COM
muting tickets to Bermuda, and some
New York travellers are committing
even to Nassau. One Nassau COM
muter recently took his family around
the world by plane, voyaging to Eu-
rope and flying the rest of the way. A
round -the-World trip can be made in
as little as 81 days.
Many travellers are using planes in
order to cover more ground during
their vacations. For Fasteners a
short vacation which included both
Mexico and California used to be a
fairly hurried trip Now it's a simple
matter to leave New York one evening,
reach Mexico City in time for lunch
next day, spend a day or two there
and fly on to Los Angeles. Many peo-
pie like to travel one way to Cali
fornia by train, using the transcon-
tinental planes of United, American
or T. w. A. lines the other way.
Some travellers combine ship and
plane, cruising to Cuba, for instance,
then flying back.
Miami Havana Shuttle.
One of the most popular air routes
during winter Is that between Miami
and Havana. with four or more planes
day shutting back and forth. ia
maica is also becoming very popular
with air travellers. Florida Is an old
favorite. and this winter Eastern Air
Lines will feature an Atlanta-Tampa
extension, in addition to its Florida
East Coast destinations The newest
wrinkle in Western flights from New
York Is that of continuing right on
to Honolulu-its only a matter of 48
hours now.
South America is the air destination
OF the adventure bound, for aviation
has opened up cities there which were
once almost inaccessible to travellers
Today one can pretty well cover that
continent in tours of 81 to 46 days. A
28-day circle air tour now being pre-
pared by the American Express Travel
Service includes on its itinerary ia
maica, the Canal Zone and Panama,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Ar
gentina, Brazil, Uruguay, the three
Guianas, Trinidad, Puerto Rico, Santo
Domingo. Haiti and Cuba.
The trip is more than a mere flight
over those nations. 1t allows two and
a half days in Quito, four days each
in Lima, Santiago and Rio and five
days in Buenos Aires In addition
there are short stops at many other
cities, South American record which
aviation now makes possible.