UNION AIRWAYS
REVIEW- OF OPERATIONS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
DUNEDIN, This Day.
The air service between Dunedin and Palmerston North conducted by Union Airways has now'been in operation for approximately six months, and during that period the company's machines have flown a; total distance of 161,665 miles. The aeroplanes have been in the air 1307 hours, and have carried 2847 passengers, representing 636,805 passenger miles.- In all 503 passengers have left Dunedin and 490 have been brought to the city.- Of the 336 scheduled trips only two have been missed.
The service carried 20271b of freight and 88061b of mail matter, representing 247 ton miles of freight and 1176 ton miles of mail.
The mail percentage of regularity (working out on the basis of the performance of the aeroplanes in completing their flights on time), is 99.4.
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Evening Post, Issue 12, 14 July 1936, Page 11
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