The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-08-01

via Saigon, French Indo-C China: Bangkok, Thailand; and Rangoon. Burma, to Calcutta. There it will link up the company's North At lantic routes.
 Inc company was authorized to extend it's South Pacific route from Noumea, New Caledonia. to Sydney, Australia, further permis- sion was granted to consolidate the existing Pan American I. S. Alaska routes into one route with Seattle and Fairbanks as terminal points and Ketchikan, Juneau Whitehorse Burwash Landing and | Tanacross as intermediate points
 By authorizing Northwest to op- crate between the United States and the Orient, the Board also created new routes between Seattle and Anchorage and between New York and Chicago and Anchorage
 Intra Alaskan service was also extended by amending the certifi- cates of Pacific Northern Airlines to enable that carrier to operate from Anchorage to Juneau via Cordova and Yakutat.
 In establishing the new route to Alaska from the United States, the Board indicated that if the new services do not meet the de- mands the Board will authorize an additional carrier.
 Other Extensions
 Besides the new round-the- world Y route of Pan American, the Board permitted VIVA to extend it's North Atlantic route from Bombay, India via Calcutta, Mandalay, Burma, Hanoa French Indo-China, and Canton, China, to Shanghai where connections will be made with the newly authorized Pacific routes. This decision, in effect, established second U. s. flag round-the- \ world service.
 
 by the Board to extend its route No. 3 from Lethbridge, Canada to Edmonton via Calgary, Canada making possible connections with Northwest Airlines Great Circle Route to the Orient.
 Applications Involved
 The so-called Pacific Case in- volved the applications of 10 air carriers to establish extensive new services to Australia, the Orient and Alaska. Before today's de- cision. Pan American was the only United States carrier authorized to fly the Pacific. The decision gives Pan American predominant po- sition in the South and Central Pacific areas but for the first time authorized competition in the Pa cific area by creating the northern route.
 In this, the Board adhered to the precedent set in the North Atlantic case in which it set the pattern for regulated competition between United States international air carriers rather than for world monopoly by one carrier.
 Northwest Passage
 The Board stressed the prewar trade experience of the United States with the Orient, saying that in addition to such trade "air transportation will develop a mea- sure of traffic which has not previously existed" and will "en- large the travel market to the Far East
 Tn opening the historic North west Passage" for the first time to commercial aviation, the E,oard | mentioned the tremendous strides in that area in air transportation and pointed out that operations during the war have demonstrated that flights over the Polar route can be maintained with an operat- ing performance of approximately 95 per cent"
 Natural Gateways
 In determining gateways to AL aska and the Orient, the Board noted that the data of record indicate quite clearly that a nat ural gateway to Alaskan and Or iental traffic in the United States is Chicago serving the Eastern and Central states. Seattle would serve the Northwest and the Rocky Mountain region, and San Fran cisco and Los Angeles would serve the Pacific States and the South west and also Mexico and Central ! America"
 All other applications in the Pa cific Case, including Pan Ameri- cans bid for a Seattle Anchorage | route, were rejected Ten airlines altogether had made applications.