TASMAN AIRWAYS
YEAR'S OPERATIONS 1461 PASSENGERS CARRIED (0.C.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday Figures for the yenr ended. ]Vl«utli ol showed that New Zealand and Australia hail good cause to be proud or the record achieved by Tnstnnn Empire Airways, stated an official of the company. Of HH trips scheduled, 1110 ..were completed —97.01 per cent of the possible—an exceptionally high proportion for ocean crossings. Geneiallj <)() per cent would be considered excellent for such passages in a period of 12 months. All the trips were made' by the Aotearoa and Awarua, which carried a total of 1461 passengers, an average of over 11 a trip. The hours flown amounted to 1180.'IS, an average ot 9.08 hours a trip. The quickest night' was 6 hours 57 minutes on March 2.5. The aggregate of miles flown was 17 I.2oo,"computed on the air-line distance of 1310 miles between Auckland and S \ (Iney. Mails totalled 77,5/ lib., an average of nearlv r i9 71b. a trip. Ereight accounted for U.tNb . an average ol a lit tic over 1 1 Üb. a trip.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23970, 21 May 1941, Page 12
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175TASMAN AIRWAYS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23970, 21 May 1941, Page 12
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