Evening star., 1945-10-28

The new routes to London and Paris
are only the first leg on a network of
. United States airlines spreading
throughout Europe, the Near East and
as far as India which were approved re-
Gently by the CAB. Their actual opera
tions depends on two factors: Sufficient
equipment, which will be forthcoming
shortly; and the granting by foreign
countries of landing rights, which may
prove much more formidable and
time consuming obstacle.
Under the CAB decision the European
routes were divided - roughly - into
northern, central and southern spheres
and were allocated to American, Pan
, American and TWA respectively, with
p the latter two lines continuing to India
via the Near East.
If eventual plans are carried through
along lines plotted by the CAB, Ameri-
can airlines will have two parallel routes
across the Atlantic to Europe.
Both will start at Chicago. From there
the most northerly route will run via
Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, Norway,
Sweden and Finland to Leningrad and
Moscow. The parallel line, some 1000
miles to the south, will fly the follow
ing route: Chicago, Newfoundland, Ire
land, England, Holland and Poland, and
will have its terminus in Moscow.
Thus far American has obtained land
ing rites only in Ireland, England and
Sweden. Its negotiations with the Meth
erlands government are expected to be
satisfactorily concluded soon. Probably
the first extension of its present service
to London will be on to Stockholm via
Amsterdam.
European Routes
Pan Americans route, in the central
European sphere, is to be continued from
London through Holland, Czechoslova-
kia, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Tur-
key and Persia to Calcutta, India. A
dog-leg in the Middle East will connect
up the main route with Syria and Iraq.
Also its separate southern Atlantic route
to Lisbon will continue northeast to
Barcelona, Spain and Marseilles, France,
but will not connect with the northern
route. 1t, too, will make Chicago its
western terminal.
AS its slice of the European aviation
pie, TWA has been awarded a virtual
monopoly on United States operations in
the Mediterranean basin. TWA plans
two transatlantic routes. The extension
of the northern route to Paris, described
earlier, will run through Switzerland,
italy and Greece across the Mediterra-
; mean to Egypt and from there through
Palestine and Saudi Arabia to India and
will have its terminus at Colombo,
Ceylon.
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TWAS southern Atlantic route will
run from Newfoundland to Portugal and
thence through Spain, Algiers, Tunisia
and Lydia. linking up with the northern
route at Cairo. Egypt. Further west the
two routes also will be linked by line
from Madrid to Rome. TWAS western
terminus also will be Chicago. Thus far
TWA has acquired landing rights only
in Ireland, Spain and Switzerland. Me-
gotiations now are going on with the
other countries in which operations are
planned.
Although the main routes Of all three
operators are laid out to run eventually
from Chicago to Newfoundland. the
East Coast will be connected with New
foundland by lines running from Wash
ington via Philadelphia, New York and
Boston.
Extended United States operations
in Europe will, of course, be paralleled
by increased service of European lines
to the United States. Landing rights
usually are granted only on reciprocal
basis. and 1t may be expected that for
every such concession American opera
tors receive in Europe similar conces-
sion will be granted by the United
States.
The American lines. however. VIII
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