SUBSIDIES COMPARED
LONDON, March 8,
The report of the'. Ca'dman Commit-' tee of Inquiry into Civil"Aviation has a number of appendices, including one analysing the subsidies paid over several years to certain European air transport companies.
• This shows that the subsidy received by Imperial Airways in 1937 represented 23.8 per cent, of its total receipts, compared with 65.4 per cent, for Lufthansa, 34.3 per cent, for Sabena, land 67.8 per cent, for Ala Littoria. The Imperial Airways subsidy per ton-mile in 1937—1s 5.72d—-was also lower than i that for Air France, Lufthansa, Sabena, jor Aero Transport of Sweden.
The '.committee was not called upon to consider either broad questions of principle, concerning which the policy of the Government has been fully explained to Parliament, or matters relating to the development of civil aviation within the United Kingdom, which were the subject of an inquiry and report by the Maybury Committee. - • ..'■'..'•
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 58, 10 March 1938, Page 9
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