Le Bourget Airport’s Great Traffic Record
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 23. Be Bourget, the famous peacetime Paris airport which was battered by the Allies during the German occupation, is now almost fully repaired and able to handle a thousand aircraft movements daily, a figure that would have sounded fantastic before the war. Le Bourget now copes with hundreds of passengers and tens of thousands of pounds of freight and mails every 24 hours. The main buildings have been restored and the comfortable waiting rooms and buffets for passengers and crews are up to peacetime standards. Recently 1200 repatriated prisoners of war were landed there in three and a half hours. During peak periods R.A.F. flying control handles as many as 147 aircraft an hour. The top figure for one day was 1000 aircraft.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 150, 27 June 1945, Page 2
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