von Zeppelin » 11. Dez 2009, 18:56
Hello Alexios,
I am sure you are the only one who knows where this commercial cover was dispatched. At least I can not read the city of dispatch....
But anyhow, what I can read is that the cover reached Athens on August 17, 1933 at 7 pm and that the cover reached Berlin C2 (= Berlin Tempelhof airfield) the next day (August 18, 1933) between 9 and 10 pm. And this tells me that the cover was flown by Lufthansa from Athens to Berlin. This Lufthansa flight went on the Athens-Berlin route twice a week, only Fridays and Sundays. Departure at Athens was 7.20 am, the flight went via Saloniki, Sofia, Belgrad, Budapest and Vienna to Berlin. Scheduled arrival at Berlin was at 8 pm. And August 18, 1933 was of course a Friday, so Lufthansa was flying on this day.
The next day (Saturday August 19, 1933) the cover went on the Berlin-Friedrichshafen conencting flight and from there by zeppelin to Recife wih Condor connection to Rio.
Nice and spectacular cover!!!!
Herausgeber des/editor of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL
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