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Seattle-Tacoma
Urged as Sole Air
Route to Orient
WASHINGTON, UP)—Washing
ton State interests urged Wed
nesday that the Civil Aeronautics
Board recognize Seattle-Tacoma
as the sole domestic terminus for
all overseas air service between
the United States and the Orient
via the North Pacific.
Robert L. Simpson of Olympia
told the board an examiner’s rec
ommendations that San Francisco
Los Angeles be designated co
terminals with the northwest cities
“demonstrate either failure to
recognize the commercial impor
tance and geographical advantage
of the Seattle-Tacoma area or
demonstrate an attempt, uncon
sciously, to discriminate against
the Pacific Northwest in favor of
California.”
Simpson, who represented the
state’s public service commission
as well as the Seattle and Tacoma
Chambers of Commerce, was the
first of several Northwest spokes
men to appear before the board in
connection with oral arguments
on various transpacific certifica
tion cases.
The Northwest interest stems
from an examiner’s recommenda
tion that Northwest Airlines’ cer
tification to fly the Great Circle—
or northern—route be extended
for five years and that Pan Amer
ican World Airways also be per
mitted to fly the shorter route out
of the California cities without
picking up passengers at Seattle
or Portland. Pan American now
is required to stop at Honolulu or
Guam in its transpacific crossing.
Simpson said he was not op
posed to Pan American being
authorized to fly the shorter route.
“We do oppose, however, route
juggling which ignores or de
prives Seattle-Tacoma of its geo
graphical and logical advantage
as the point of origin and termina
tion for such service.”
He said Pan American should
be required to “originate and ter
minate its Orient flights via the
Great Circle route at Seattle
Tacoma.”
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