Daily passenger planes across the Atlantic will leave London at 4, 6, 8, 10 p.m. and midnight (plus at least three flights daily from the Continent). That was the postwar schedule predicted last week. Flying time from London to the U.S. will be 15 hours. In all, some 300 persons a day will fly westbound (with an equal number headed east) in luxury airliners capable of carrying up to 57 passengers, plus heavy loads of mail and freight.
This picture of the plane pre-empting the passenger traffic of the steamship shortly after the war was drawn by Edward Pearson Warner, former...
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