FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1933
1933 - 0764.PDF
FLIGHT, OCTOBER 12, 1933 American air transport service. First among them is the increased willingness of travellers to consider voyaging by air, followed by a general reduction in fares. In the past five years air-passenger rates have been reduced by a little more than 50 per cent, to a present average of about 5.98 cent* per mile, or approximately the rail-plus-Pullman rate. This represents a sharp decline from 7.4 cents in January, 1931, and 12.87 cents in June, 1928. The reduc tion in fares, coupled with the considerable saving in time, has effectively answered the argument that the use of the aeroplane for travel is a form of extravagance. Another factor is the long distances between most important cities in the Western Hemisphere, which gives the air traveller a great saving in time over the journey by rail, and especially over boats and other forms of trans portation. This advantage, in the case of cities not greatly distant, is largely cancelled by the time consumed in travelling to and from airports. For instance, Philadel phia is only forty minutes from New York by air, so the time required to go to Newark and from the Philadelphia airport into the city brings the elapsed time almost to railroad schedules. Last year about $5,000,000 was expended on new ter minals, hangars, lighting equipment and other installa tions at airports and on airways. While some ports were abandoned because of business conditions, poor locations or inadequate demand, the Department of Commerce reported 41 new municipal, 28 new commercial and 91 new auxiliary fields. In the United States, on July 1, 1933, there were 550 municipal and 653 commercial air ports, 269 Department of Commerce intermediate landing fields, 525 auxiliary fields, 55 Army aerodromes, 16 Navy air stations, and 68 miscellaneous Government, private and State airports and landing fields, making a total of 2,136. Of these, 631 airports are fully or partially lighted for night use, constituting over 90 per cent, of the world's lighted airfields. The Federal Government is now operating, in the United States, 19,500 miles of lighted and radio-equipped airways; along the routes used at night, 1,623 revolving and 365 flashing beacons have been installed at intervals of 10 to IT miles. In addition to 228 privatelv-owned beacons, the Government has installed and is now operating 61 radio communication stations, 68 radio range beacon stations and 74 radio marker beacons. SUMMARY OF AIR TRANSPORT OPERATIONS Year 1926 1927 1928 1929 193(1 1931 1932 Operators 19 24 32 27 35 41 33 Planes Service 95 144 294 619 685 720 655 Miles __ — — i — 30,703,119 47,463,673 51,932.868 Miles 4,608,880 5,242,839 10,472,024 20,242,891 28,833,967 43,395,478 48,344,358 Passengers Passenger Miles Express (pounds Mail (pounds) 5.782 12,594 52,934 165,263 385,910 457,753 504,575 — — — — 94,545.784 116,232.153 143.169.682 6,467 12,495 35,376 197,538 286.798 885.164 .324.428 433,649 1,222,843 3,632,059 7,772,014 8,513,675 9.351,195 7.658,3.32 HULL-HOLLAND AIR SERVICE IT is announced that the Royal Dutch Air Lines (K.L.M.) will operate a daily service from Hull (Hedon Aerodrome) to Holland in the comparatively near future. The inauguration of this service de pends in some measure, however, upon the Hull Municipal Authorities grasping the opportunity of making the city an important future airport by providing suitable hangar accommodation and other facilities. The line should prove an important one, not only to Hull, but also to the North of England, for there can be no doubt that the presence of excellent Continental connections by air will encourage a demand for internal " feeder " air lines to Hull. During summer this service will link Hull with Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Malmo, Prague, Vienna, and Hamburg in a single day's flight, and, according to a recent announcement, with Oslo also. Moreover, the service, which will probably leave Hull at 7 a.m. daily, will link that city with the Amsterdam-Batavia service once a week. In this country municipalities have not been slow, in many cases, to realise the advantages of possess ing an up-to-date airport, but few have been offered imme diate and far-reaching air connections such as will be pro vided by the K.L.M., whose reputation for efficiency and good organisation is too well known to need comment here. In these days, too, of " wild cat " air ventures it must be comforting to the City Fathers of Hull to know that the Royal Dutch Air Lines is the Netherlands national com pany, subsidised by the Government, which, it is believed, has sanctioned the Hull-Holland air line. London to Cairo Aerial Tour IMPERIAL AIRWAYS have arranged an aerial cruise from London to Cairo and return, a distance of about 6,000 miles, which will be accomplished in seven days. The passengers left Croydon on Tuesday, October 10, in a 42-seater Handley Page machine Helena, and will fly by way of Paris, Marseilles, Rome, Malta, and the north coast of Africa, Cairo being reached on Friday, October 13. The return flight will be made by way of Athens, Brindisi and Paris, London being reached on Tuesday, Octo ber 17. If passengers so desire, they may stay in Cairo and return by any African or Indian air mail machine. The fare for the whole tour will be £42. B. & P. Aeroplanes for Imperial Airways BOULTON & PAUL, LTD., of Norwich, announce that they have received a contract from Imperial Airways, Ltd., for two small twin-engined passenger aeroplanes. The machines are in the design stage, and no further details are yet available. Madras Air Taxi Service THE Madras Air Taxi Service was recently started by Raja Krishna Rao and Raja Bhujunga Rao. The service is the first of its kind in India and is intended to take passengers from Madras or elsewhere to any part of India and Burma. Flights are arranged from Madras and to places where there are suitable landing grounds. The company has on hand three comfortable aeroplanes (a single-seater, a two-seater and a three-seater), and has proposed to arrange special all-round-India trips at special rates. The fare from Madras to Bombay for a single passenger is Rs. 510, which includes the detention charge for three extra days. The company arranges for insuring the lives of those who choose to do so to the extent of between Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 20,000. Among the places to which the service will be available are Agra, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Baroda, Bellary, Benares, Bombay, Calcutta, Cawnpore, Chanda, Delhi, Gaya, Hyderabad (Deccan), Jhansi, Jodhpur, Jubbulpore, Karachi, Lucknow, Nagpur, Poona, Quilon, Raipur, Shola- pur, Tiichinopoly and Vizagapattam. Portsmouth, Southsea and I.O.W. Services OWING to pressure on our space we have been unable to publish traffic figures of the Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Air Ferry Services for the last three weeks. The number of passengers carried during the last three weeks in September were : — Spitbead Air Ferry .. .. between Sboreham Air Ferry .. .. ,, Shoreham Air Ferry . . .. J Shanklin Air Ferry .. .. „ Shanklin Air Ferry .. .. „ Ryde and Portsmouth .. 933 Portsmouth and Shoreham 29 Shoreham and Isle of Wight 15 Portsmouth and Shanklin .. 62 Ryde and Shanklin .. • • 62 1028
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
