Evening star., 1946-06-09
Planes Stress
Speedy Trips
To Resorts

Working diligently to dissipate
memories of the wartime slogan,
Essential Travellers Only" the Ma
tion's airlines are extending an en-
thusiastic welcome to vacationers
IN this first full peacetime summer
travel season.
One no longer needs to be on
urgent business to travel by air.
they point out, and the number of
seats available has been increasing
steadily since VI day. As added
inducements, they point proudly to
substantial increases in -engined
equipment and fares averaging
about 20 per cent below those In
effect in 1941.
AL major air carriers have placed
large orders for four-motored planes.
Although deliveries of the newest
models have been slow, conversion
OF large ships released by the
armed forces has enabled the lines
to announce new flights virtually
every week in the last few months
Reservations in Advance.
The general availability of seats
to all points is emphasized by lines
operating out of Washington. The
vacationer who wants to be certain
Of particular flight should protect
himself by placing a reservation one
to two weeks in advance, however.
they add.
Specializing in transcontinental
service, United Airlines, American
Alrlines and TWA can get Wash
ingtonians to the West Coast in
hurry.
TWA is proud of its big Lock-
heed Consultations making the
New York-Los Angeles run in about
10 hours. but it also provides fast
daily service from the Capital to
the West.
United offers four fights to San
Francisco daily and a like number
OF return trips. One each way uses
four -motored equipment.
American, flying the Southern
route, makes more than a dozen
departures daily for Los Angeles
and intermediate points. Included
is one-stop service using four
engined ships, the sole pause COM
ing at Dallas, Tex.
Resorts Along Routes.
TWA and the other transcon-
tinental carriers point out that
many popular resorts are near stop
over points. particularly in the
Rocky Mountain area Yellowstone
Park. Lake Tahoe and dozens of
other distant Fairgrounds should
not be overlooked by Washing
tonians with limited time for vaca-
tisns, they insist. Boulder Dam, the
Grand Canyon, Palm Springs. the
Painted Desert and the Sierras are
near cities served by lines flying
from Washington National Airport
TWA. United. American and Cap
ital Airlines-PCA provide frequent
Washington-Chicago service with
connections there for the ranch
country in Montana and elsewhere
West. In addition to numerous
flights with stopovers, American has
two nonstop round trips daily be-
tween these cities. with flying time
Of about three hours.
Capital Airlines-PCA has re-
activated its 800" routes, which
were suspended during the war.
Two daily round trips from Chicago
and Detroit now whisk vacationers
to and from Northern Michigan
touching Grand Rapids, Saginaw
Bay City, Midland, Traverse City,
Pellston, Petoskey, Harbor Springs
and Sheboygan.
New England Service.
New England is reached quickly
by American, which flies nine
through round trips between Wash
lngton and Boston daily, including
two using four -motored planes. If
the times of these departures are
not suitable, passengers may fly to
New York City by Eastern Airlines
and connect with the greatly-aug-
mented American New York Boston
service.
Connecting service in Boston
reaches the maritime provinces of
Canada.
Direct Washington-M Montreal OF
tawa service, with two round trips
daily, is offered by Colonial Airlines
Flying time is about four and a half
hours. Last week, this line began
making intermediate stops at Wa
tertown and Massena, N. Y. Mas
sena Is across the St. Lawrence
River from Cornwall, Ontario, and
Watertown is near the Thousand
Islands fishing paradise.
American and Capital Airlines-
Pea are providing increased service
to cities of the Great Smokes area
The latter line last week placed
-motored planes in service to
Knoxville from New York via Pitts
burgh. Washington passengers now
may fly Pea to Knoxville via Pitts
burgh or Norfolk. Va, depending on
which connection is found more ia
vorable. American reaches Knox
vile via Roanoke and Lynchburg,
Va. or nonstop.
peas North Carolina service
stops at Asheville, long a favorite
mountain resort. TWA and Amer
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Arizona and New Mexico, adjacent
to stops on the transcontinental
routes of these lines.
To "All-Year" Florida.
For those to whom fishing off the
South Atlantic States appeals and
those who agree with Florida boost
ers that their State is year-round
pleasure ground, Eastern boasts fire.
quent departures southwark.
National Airlines. also skirting the
Coast, may offer timing advantages
to some Washingtonians. 1t con-
meets with Pea at Norfolk.
Bermuda is reached by air by Pan
American and British Overseas Air
ways. Pan American gives daily
rouno-trip service between New
York and Hamilton with four EN-
gined land planes, making the run
in about four hours. British Over
seas flies between Baltimore and
Hamilton three times week in each
direction. The trip takes about five
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