Northwest History. State History. Aeronautics, Continued Airports, Commercial Service. 1917 to 1929.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1928
• Subjects: Charles V. Eakin; West Coast Air Transport; Vancouver,B.C.; Seattle; California; Grays Harbor; Ketchikan; Seattle Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee; Northwest History > History > 20th Century; United States > Aeronautics; Continued Airports; Commercial Service > 20th Century; Pacific; Skagway; Alaska
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/132546

Seattle Is Weak Link In Air Line:Los Angeles-Alaska Service Possible When It Gets Proper Field. SEATTLE IS WEAK LINK IN AIR LINE Los Angeles-Alaska Service Possible When It Gets Proper Field. SEATTLE, March 15. (AP)—The Pacific coast from Los Angeles to Alaska probably will be linked by airplanes within a year if adequate landing- field facilities are developed in Seattle, Charles V. Eakin of Portland, general manager of the West Coast Air Transport, revealed here yesterday. He said a new service from Vancouver, B. C., to Seattle, connecting with lines of California, is to be inaugurated within 30 or 40 days by his company. That will be followed, he said, by regular service to Skagway, Alaska, plans for which are well under way. Air lines to Grays Harbor and Ketchikan have been proposed. Inadequacy of Seattle's airports necessitated his company's interrupting its passenger schedule between here and Portland. The schedule was resumed this afternoon on another flying field which, Eakin said, can be used but temporarily. His intimations that Tacoma might be made the northern terminus of the, California service resulted in the Seattle Chamber of Commerce aviation committee empowering a special committee to make one of Seattle's fields safe and adequate for the use of six- passenger planes immediately.