Evening star., 1946-07-14
Normal Trans-0cean
Air Service Expected
By Middle OF Week

Trans-ocean air service is expect
ed to return to normal by the middle
Of the week when United States
airlines operating overseas place
complete fleets of Douglas DC-4's
in service to meet a passenger crisis
that followed a Civil Aeronautics
Administration order grounding al
Lockheed Consultations.
A sharp cut in international all
schedules left travellers stranded OF
three continents after a ConStella
ton crashed near Reading. Pa, OF
a training flight Thursday. ano
the CAA immediately ordered al
other four engine planes of thl.
type out of service.
Pan American World Airway.
told the Associated Press in New
York its service was "a little bet.
ter than half normal but would bt
normal by the middle of next week
Trans World AirlineS cancelled two
flights yesterday but expected L
resume normal service by tomor
row.
Back to Normal Service.
American Overseas AlrlneS salt
1t already was back to normal serv
ice and expected to increase it,
flights by the end of the month will
additional Douglas SkVmaSters
Meantime, the company said i
would maintain its present IL week
ly flights to and from LaGuardii
Field with six Skymasters which
would make quick turnarounds be-
tween trips TO Europe
-Four SkymaSterS have been re.
celved from Miami to replace Con-
StellatlonS, Pan American said, anc
two or four more are expected The
airline added that normally from
Thursday to Sunday ID outbound
and l3 inbound Constellation flights
would have operated in its Bermuda
and transatlantic service, carrying
about 1000 passengers.
Pan American expects to resume
service to Bermuda tomorrow or
Tuesday and to resume daily sched-
uleS TO London on Tuesday. Weekly
Lisbon service is planned July "a
TWA scheduled weekly Translate
lantic flights out Of Washington or
the following routes: To Philadel-
phia. New York. Boston. Lisbon
Madrid, AlgierS, Tunis. Tripoli and
Cairo: to New York. Shannon. Paris
Geneva. Rome. Athens and Cairo:
TO New York, Shannon, Lisbon
Madrid. Rome and Cairo.
Effective Tuesday. TWA Will or
iginate no overseas flights from
Chicago. With the exception of
Dhahren, Saudi Arabia. a regular
schedule will be maintained to for
elgn points with Skymasters. A
Washington to Cairo flight Sched-
uled for today was Cancelled.
Vice President Otis F.. BRYAN OF
TWA announced that a temporary
schedule to be put into effect by his
line Tuesday would provide nine
overseas flights weekly as against II
II was pointed out that TWA
flights originating here for the
European run customarilv were
made by DC-4 transports and will
continue to be so scheduled.
DC-3s, which are two-engine
planes. are being used in place Of
Consultations in transcontinental
service, TWA said.
British Service Suspended.
British Overseas Airways service
between New York and London re-
mamed suspended. The line an
nounced that effective tomorrow it
would establish five additional
round trips weekly between Balti-
more and Bermuda. using Boeing
flying boats, if the demand for space
Justlhed the extra service. The line
now has three round trips weekly
between the two cities.
Construction of Consultations is
continuing at the LOckheed plant
at Burbank. California. Oficials
said % Of the big planes were on
the assembly line.