Messrs. Handley Page recently received information from their correspondents that the North German Lloyd Company has succeeded in forming a combine of the leading aviation companies in Germany, Austria, and Denmark. The companies interested are the Al-hatress G.M.B..H., of Berlin; the Badische Luftverkehrs Gesellschaft, of Baden; the Bayrischen Rumpler Werke A.G., of Augsburg and Berlin; the Dank Luftekoress, of Copenhagen; the Hannoverische Waggonfabrik, of Hanover; the Wollers Flugzugwerke, of Dessau; Lloyd Luftdienst G.M.B.H., of Bremen; the Sablatnig Flugzeugbau G.M.B.H., of Berlin; and the Wiener Flugvekehrs Glseilschaft, of Vienna, The German Combine owns a number of commercial aeroplanes with saloon accommodation, capable of carrying mails and from four to eight passengers. The service between Vienna and Berlin is via Nuremberg and Munich. The German aviation companies are not permitted at present to fly over Czecho-Slovakia, but many lines of communication have been decided on in order to link up Northern Germany with Switzer. land, Austria, and Constantinople, and also with a view to communicating with the International Air Lines in the West. The single fare charged by the combine for passengers between Vienna and Berlin is 2,500 marks, at the present rate of exchange—about three times as much as the cost of a first-class single railway ticket. The time taken by the railway is 26 hours as compared with the four hours fifty minutes by the new air route. Italy is also to be. included in the service from Vienna to Milan, 'a distance of 385 miles, which will take four hours twenty minutes.
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