'File 6/1 II Aviation - Imperial Airways' [‎36r] (71/160)

Extract from letter No.C-337 of 30th November 1935
from Lieut•-Colonel H#R«P.Dickson,C.I.E# f Politic&-l Agent,
2* tfe are supposed to get two air mails a week in
westward, and two in eastward, direction, though the Company
reserve themselves tfrfe right to fly over Kuwait should they
be running late, or should they be doing a night flight, or
if fog or other natural phenomena made it dangerous for them
to Ifind.
3. These reservations are quite legitimate, and we do not
complain at all, if they are every now and then enforced.
4. What we find hard to stomach, is the practice pilots
make of flying over Kuwait (growing more and more frequent
of late) when they are right up to time, and vhen the
weather conditions are absolutely perfect.
5. Not only does this failure to stop greatly disappoint
those who expect air mail letters from England and America
(not to mention Baghdad and Basra) but it has compelled most
of us Europeans in Kuwait to give up trying to post our air
mail letters in Kuwait. Instead we send our letters 2 days
before the air ntfil is due by ordinary post to Basra and
arrange for them to be put in the Air Mail Bag there. This
naturally loses us any advantage thrt we could get from our
air mail service.
6. The worst feature of these continued failures to call
on the part of pilots is the fact that, telegrams informing
us that they intend flying over are nearly always received
after the machine has passed Kuwait. This is most dis
heartening for the Agent, the quarantine Officer, and the
refuelling staff, who over and over again go to the aer ^
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