Anglo -French Co-operation The agreement between Air France and Imperial Air-
ways announced by Sir Kingsley Wood this week, on the 3oth anniversary of Bleriot's flight across the Channel, is to be welcomed both for its practical results and as a sign of increased practical co-operation between France and Great Britain. The agreement comes into force at the beginning of this winter and provides for a pooling of the two companies' resources on the Paris-London air-route and a sharing of receipts. A regular service of 20 planes a day each way in summer, as against 14 now, and of 14, as against 9, in winter, will be maintained, and all planes will do the journey in a hours ; tickets will be inter- changeable and there will be no increase in fares. These arrangements will bring great advantages to air-passengers across the Channel ; they are the first of the benefits pro- duced by the reorganisation of Imperial Airways and should provide a strong stimulus to travel between this country and France. It is peculiarly fitting that this type of co-operation should be realised in the air, as it was above all Bierrot's flight which made obvious to everyone that the interests of the two democracies could never again be fundamentally divided ; the further it can be carried the more solidly founded will be both their security and their prosperity.
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