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Horseshoe route

The Horseshoe route was a flying boat route between Sydney, Australia, and Durban, South Africa, via Singapore and Cairo during World War II. Mail could then be sent by sea between South Africa and Britain. Using Short Empire C Class ''S23'' and ''S33'' flying boats, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) operated the section between Durban and Singapore while Qantas Empire Airways operated the section between Singapore and Sydney. In October 1941, Qantas took over the Karachi - Singapore section as BOAC were short of pilots.
This emergency route was necessitated by Italy entering the war in June 1940, which made it impossible for mail to be flown between Britain and Egypt (and thus on to Australia or Africa) via the Mediterranean.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Early Horseshoe Route )〕 The Horseshoe Route to Australia was suspended after the loss of Singapore in February 1942 after which it was restricted to being between Durban and Calcutta.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=End of Horseshoe Route )
==Initial services==
The first Durban - Sydney and Sydney - Durban flights both left on 19 June 1940 and arrived at their destination on 1 July. The first mail for the UK was sent from Cape Town on 5 July on the ''Winchester Castle'' and arrived in Britain on 21 July. The first mail dispatch from London was on 19 June and was sent on the ''Arundel Castle'' which left Southampton on 20 June and arrived in Cape Town on 7 July. It connected with the fourth Horseshoe flight from Durban, leaving there on 10 July and arriving in Sydney on 24 July.〔W.H. Legg, "Aspects of the Horseshoe Route", ''Air Mail News'', vol. 45, pp. 44 - 53, May 2002, Pub. British Air Mail Society〕
Initially the Horseshoe service was weekly, but from 22 August 1940 its frequency was increased to twice a week.〔

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