Flying Boat Service India to England

[gengrant]

What year did the Flying Boat service India to England start was it before or after WW2, I think it took about six to eight days. Passengers flew for so many hours a day and then were ferried ashore and spent the night in Posh Hotels and then continued their trip the next day
What were the routes they flew, how many days did it take and when was the service disscontinued?
Were there any records kept of these flights, passenger lists etc.? Which British Company maintained this route.

[Jan1954]

Well, I have had a bit of a google and found an article which says:

"Passengers flying to India flew from London via Paris to Basel, where they boarded a train for Genoa. A flying boat then took them on to Alexandria, where they flew in stages to Karachi. The passage to India, previously three weeks by sea, had been reduced to one week by air."

It seems that it was Imperial Airways who ran the route and you can read a bit more here: encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2841800029.html - put www. in front and scroll down the page past the adverts...... :)