AIR TRAVEL
GROWTH OF STRAIT SERVICE
(Br Telegraph—Press Association.)
NELSON, This Day.
Cook Strait Airways on the Nelson-Blenheim-Wellington service for the twenty-one months of operations to September 30, when the new extended time-table was instituted, carried 25,819 passengers across Cook Strait. The passenger miles totalled 1,492,074. The figures for the September quarter of 1936 and 1937 indicate the growth of use of the air services, the 1936 figures given in parentheses: Passengers, 4792 (2945); miles flown, 70,675 (59,875); percentage of trips completed, 98.8 (89.2); freight, 77871b (42421b); mails, 76901b (47601b).
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 10
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