UNION AIRWAYS
Last Year’s Good Record NEARLY ALL SCHEDULED TRIPS COiMPLETED With tiie completion of 99.05 per cent, of the 734 trips scheduled to be flown during the 12 months for I lie period ended March 27, 1937, Union Airways of New Zealand, Ltd., can boast of a record which no other company in the world engaged in a similar capacity lias yet equalled. Actually 727 trips were completed, the remaining seven not being flown over the entire route because of the risk element attached to bad flying weather. According to oilier statistics released to "Tiie Dominion” yesterday, tiie toial number of miles flown —360,140 —took exactly 3000 hours. Tiie number of passengers carried was 7193, but to this can be added 30 p<‘f cent, to represent Hie number of people who travelled more than one section. This figure, which approximated 10,090. indicates the number of passengers flown to each section. Tiie amount of passenger baggage carried was 163,3.821 b., and freight and excess baggage reached 716011). Mails flown weighed 44.1841 b.
Other more technical statistics showed that the number of passenger miles flown was 1.623.545: freight ton miles, 772: and mail ton miles. 6393.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 12
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195UNION AIRWAYS Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 171, 16 April 1937, Page 12
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