AIR TRAFFIC
A VAST INCREASE. BY IMPERIAL AIRWAYS. HUGE FLYING TOTAL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 27, 10.47 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 26. The continued rapid increase in air traffic is shown by the figures for passengers, freight, mails, and mileage of the Imperial Airways services. Comparing the first quarters of this year and last year passenger ton miles were 564,836 as against 367,038; freight ton miles were 127,213 as against 87,811; and mails ton miles 269,425 as against 135,056; while the passengers’ mile total reached 5,844,234 as against 3,830,609. Still more recent statistics referring to May of this year show an increase of 70 per cent, as compared with the similar period of 1934 in the number of Empire air passengers passing through tho Croydon airport. During the recent 12 months for which figures are available, March 31, 1934, to April 1, 1935, the air liners of Imperial Airways operating on ' the European and Empire routes flew 2,482,864 miles, and carried 55.559 passengers and over 2,000,000 pounds of mails and freight.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 230, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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176AIR TRAFFIC Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 230, 27 August 1935, Page 7
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