AVIATION ADVANCE

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4044, 29 September 1933, Page 5

AVIATION ADVANCE

The World’s Airways REMARKABLE GROWTH MILEAGE INCREASES UNIFYING INFLUENCE AIR MINISTERS REVIEW By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received Sept. 29. 9 a in.) Itugby, Sept. 27 The Air Minister. I-ord Londonderry. introducing to London the delegates from some 30 air transport companies attending the Conference of the International Air Traffic Association, referred to the vast strides made in the development of regular air services. In 1928, lie said, the mileage covered by regular air lines throughout the world was about 9000 miles. Today the figures stood at. over 200,000 miles. In 1928 the number of miles flown was 34.000.000. This year the total was expected to reach 100.000.000. In Kurope alone there were some 1*3.000 miles of airways, and over these routes 800 machines were in regular operation. The Air Minister maiintained that flying was the most civilising and unifying influence in tire modern world and a joint instrument for peace. He was convinced the military aspect of flying would sink into comparative insignificance beside its far wider and increasing use in every day life as a means of bringing nations into closer contact. Distance was perhaps the greatest enemy of international understanding, and air travel must naturally )>e an influence for good if its uses and possibilities were suitably organised.