The carriage of arms and munitions, explosive or poisonous substances is specially prohibited. Extracts from Administration Report for Bushire and Hinterland for the year 1928: “Aviation. New Air Routes. - (a) The ‘Junkers’Weekly Air Mail Service between Bushire and Tehran (under contract with the Persian Government) commenced its regular service on 21st April and has maintained a regular and highly efficient service since. The ordinary single propeller machine has been in use, and both passenger and ‘goods’ planes are now regularly running. It is said that larger twin engined passenger machines are on order. At the commencement an aeroplane left Tehran each Friday, arriving Bushire the same day six hours later and returned to Tehran the following morning. The arrangement did not give much time for replies to be sent to Tehran. From the 18th October ‘Junkers’ wisely changed this. Now the mail aeroplane arrives on Thursday and leaves again the following Sunday. The public find this arrangement much more convenient. On Fridays and Saturdays the mail aeroplane makes special trips to Mohammerah and Bandar Abbas. As the fast up mail steamer arrives at Bushire on Wednesday and the down mail on Sunday, the new timings are especially convenient for overseas travellers. On the journey to Tehran, the stopping places en route are Shiraz after 1¼ hours, and Isfahan after 3½ hours. Junkers have maintained very regular timings since they started their service and have had no accident. To their credit, it must be said, they have established a great name for regularity, civility and safety in Bushire, and they are deservedly popular. In September the Post Office notified that it had established connection with European International Air Services via Russia, and that the Persian Post Office would accept postal matter for foreign countries. Actually it is now possible for a passenger to travel from London to Bushire via Berlin, Moscow, Baku and Tehran, though a fast through service has yet to be arranged. When this comes Imperial Airways Limited will have a keen competitor for the “Junkers” route will actually be the shorter of the two. (b) Negotiations between Imperial Airways and the Persian Government for the through London-India service via Baghdad have made good progress during the year under review.
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