Unified Air Express

What the Railway Express Agency is to railroads, two rival companies have long been to airlines. Company No. 1 is Railway Express itself, with Pan American, United, twelve other airlines in its fold. Company No. 2 is General Air Express, a pool created by TWA, American, five other airlines, with pickups and deliveries handled by Postal Telegraph Co.

To end confusion, Pan American and 20 of the 23 U. S. domestic airlines last week got together in Manhattan, decided to throw in their lot with Railway Express Agency. Announcing the agreement, effective Feb. 1, Railway Express promised door to door pick-up and delivery of air and air-rail express in 32 foreign countries and in 215 cities of the U. S. and Canada. Rates will stay the same. All of the Agency's 23,000 railway express offices will become air express stations as well.

Left holding the bag of the virtually exterminated General Air Express were only TWA, Louisiana's Wedell-Williams Air Service Corp., and Wilmington-Cataline Airline Ltd. These three were expected to fall in line shortly.

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