INDIAN AIR MAIL

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9

INDIAN AIR MAIL

PROGRESS OF SIX MONTHS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

LONDON, 10th October. Figures now available bliow that good progress has boon made by the direct India air servieo since itß inauguration six months ago. From an average of about 3001b iv either direction (India only) the average weekly weight is now over 5501b, representing nearly 5 per cent, of the total lettor mail outward and over 5 per cent, inward. The average weekly weight of the whole.mail dispatched from London is nearly 7501b, and of the mail received about the same, or ISOdlb a week in all. This doos not include mail loaded at intermediate places, of which complete figure? avo not yet available. In all, 14,65Q1b of mail have been carried from London to various destinations ana 17,5SD]b of mail have reached London, or" a total weight in both directions of 32,1851b. The corresponding figures for India alone avq U,893 1b outward and 11,436 inward. Ao-I cording to existing information, there | is no regular Jong-distanco service operated from Europe whose traffic figures I can compare with these, j