Page 78 - Jamaica PO Guide 1936
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AIR MAIL SERVICES.
SouTHBOUND : A mail-carrying air plane flies from Miami,
·u.S.A., (via Havana, Cuba) every Tue:;day and Friday at 8 .15
a.m., arrives at Kingston on the same days at 5.30 p.m., and flies to
Cristoba.l (via Barra.nquilla, Col.) on Wednesdays and Saturdays at
6.30 a.m., arriving on the same days at 5.00 p.m.
NoRTHBOUND: A plane flies from Cristobal (via Barranquilla)
·every Wednesday and Saturday at 6. 30 a.m., arrives at Kingston on the
same days at 5.30 p.m., and flies to Miami (via Havana) on
Thursdays and Snnrlnys at 8. 00 a.m., arriving on the same days at
.5.15 p.m.
EAST AND WESTBOUND : A plane flies from Kingston every Wednes-
day at9.00a.m. for Port-au-Prince, Haiti and Santo Domingo City,
Republic of Dominicana arriving at latter place at 1115 a.m. on
Friday. Return plane flies from San to Domingo City to Port-au-Prince
at 1 p.m. on Friday and arrives at Kingston at 4.30 p.m. on
Tuesday.
Planes fly daily from Miami to all points in the United States.
Letters for New York City, N.Y. are due to reach that city at 6
a.m. on Fridays and ~Iondays.
On pages 74-80 a Schedule will be found showing the routes and
times of arrival of air mails for the principal cities of United States,
Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West
Indies; also the air mail routes of the London-to-Continent services
(and beyond) which are now in operation.
Am MAIL FOR EUROPE AND AY.RICA :-Letters are forwarded by
air to New York City to connect with the tranE-Atlantic steamc~s,
.affording an 8 to 12-day service to the United Kingdom and the Con-
tinent, depending upon the speed of the vessels by which forwarded
.and the timeliness of the conne:rion in New York.