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In applying to the Civil Aeronautics Authority for the additional two schedules weekly Pan American Airways cited completion of preliminary operations well ahead of the program originally contemplated and a request for the added schedules in accordance with the company's long established plans for establishment of commercial transport service across the Atlantic between the United States and Europe, for which plane equipment, representing an investment of approximately four million dollars, was ordered several years ago.
To maintain the required services it is necessary also to familiarize additional ocean flight crews with the Transatlantic route in a training program which includes flight crews for the "stratosphere" type four-engined land planes which the company expects to utilize for experimental research in high altitudes transoceanic flying.
According to the Company's application of four schedules weekly would reduce the estimated proportionate cost, to the government, of Transatlantic operations by one-third over that required for operation of two schedules.

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