New Routes

Most fallow field for air transport is territory where surface travel is slow. Nowhere is it slower than in Alaska, where dogsleds and river boats make a journey to the interior a long-drawn-out hardship. Last week Pacific Alaska Airways, progressive subsidiary of far-flung Pan American Airways, opened a new 700-mi. airway between Fairbanks and Juneau, put on 200-m.p.h. Lockheed Electras which span all Alaska, from Juneau to Nome, in seven hours compared with 34 days by surface travel. New time from New York to Nome by air-boat-air: 4 1/2 days.

Another distant subsidiary of Pan American is China National Aviation Corp. which flies up the coast of China from Canton to Peiping and westward across the middle of China, from Shanghai to Chengtu. Last week this company opened in southwestern China a new branch from Chungking to Yunnanfu, Yunnan Province.

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