Flying-boat services to South Africa would resume pre-war frequency this week, said Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, in reply to a deputation from the Civil Aviation Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, yesterday. He added that he hoped regular services to Lisbon would start in May, as the political difficulties involved were on the point of being overcome, The Air Ministry, he said, had at heart the establishment of trans-
Atlantic services, and were fully alive to the desirability of a service to South America.
The Ministry felt, the North Atlantic have priority.—Reuter. however, that service must
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