ROUTE STATISTICS

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 231, 25 June 1937, Page 17

ROUTE STATISTICS

Airways in the North Island HIGH REGULARITY Union Airways. Cook Strait Airways and East Coast Airways are the three airlines best known in the North Island, and their operations during the last year show that a high regularity and percentage of efficiency has been maintained. Figures given below cover a full 12 months for Union Airways and Cook Strait Airways, but in the case of East Coast Airways statistics are given for five months only. The service between Napier and Gisborne had to be suspended for aerodrome improvements. Union Airways. For the year ended on March 27 last, Union Airways scheduled for 734 trips between Palmerston North and Dunedin, and of those 727 were flown over the full distance; that is, 99.05 per cent, regularity was maintained. For the year, that figure was the highest recorded in the world. Other figures for the year were a« follows: — Total hours flown 3,000 Total miles flown 360,140 Passengers carried 7,193 Freight & excess baggage 7,1601 b. Mails 44,1841 b. Passenger miles 1,623,545 Freight-ton miles 772 Mail-ton miles 6,393 Passengers’ baggage 163,3821 b. Cook Strait Airways. More than 14,000 people crossed between Wellington, Blenheim and Nelson during the year which ended on March 31. Operative statistics were as follows:— Trips scheduled 4,129 Trips completed 3.807 Percentage regularity .. 92.2 Hours flown 2,173 Miles flown 271,646 Passengers carried 14,269 Freight & excess baggage . 21,8281 b. Mail carried 20,1751 b. Passenger miles 821,168 Freight-ton miles 606 Mail-ton miles 475 East Coast Airways. Of the 562 trips scheduled. 560 were completed by Egst Coast Airways for the five-monthly period from December 7, 1936, to April 30, 1937. The percentage of regularity maintained was 99.6. Other details of the service were as follows:— Hours flown 563 Miles flown 50,0-18 Passengers carried 2,060 Freight ’ 2,5241 b. Mail 1,7651 b. Passenger miles 197,760