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1936 - 0379.PDF
T6O. Sharjah, Oman, on the Persian Gulf, a desert station on the Empire route. This view is from one of the fine dioramas at the recent Imperial Airways Exhibition. (Flight photograph.) LONG-DISTANCE AIR-LINE BOOKING How Imperial Airways Deal with the Intricate Problem of Allocating Seats for Through and Intermediate Journeys on the Empire Routes By ROBERT BRENARD, of Imperial Airways and from the viewpoint of the travelling public this is as it should be, remembering that the greatest amount of individual benefit, as represented in time actually saved, is to be derived by those passengers who book flights for the longest distances. If, therefore, in times of traffic pres sure, it comes to a question of finding room on any particu lar service for a passenger who wants to book all the way through to Australia, or for one who wants to fly only from London to Cairo, preference naturally goes to the voyager wishing to fly the longer distance. Even so, it is always the aim of those allocating the seating on the main services to give satisfaction, wherever they can do so, to the largest number of passengers and, at the same time, to ensure that the liners fly with maximum loads over each of the stages of the various routes. In allocating seats between terminal points, and also be tween terminal and intermediate stations, and along the various intermediate stages, the experts in London are guided by periodical reports which they receive as to general traffic conditions along the entire network of Imperial routes. These reports, when they have been analysed, make it possible to apportion beforehand, ac cording to a careful forecast of traffic requirements, the number of seats actually earmarked for passengers along FEBRUARY 13, 1936. FLIGHT. ONE of the most interesting departments at the executive offices of Imperial Airways at Airway Terminus, Victoria, London, is that in which an enquiry officer and an expert staff deal with passenger bookings for the services not only from London to the Continent but also to Egypt, India, Africa, Malaya, and Australia. , it is a special system of seat allocation, adapted to the "•dividual requirements of long-distance air transport, J1 lien has been evolved. Ocean liners operating on the 0,1g sea routes put in, as a rule, at only two or three inter- jnediate ports on a voyage of thousands of miles. But with "e Empire air routes, not only do the machines call at Ws such as Brindisi, Alexandria, and Cairo, but on a l!ri Sai" across Africa from north to south, or along the JKua route to Australia, they are scheduled to alight at a umber of points which lie far inland, as well as on the st, and the traffic between these chains of intermediate n H- *° ^e ta^en mt° consideration as well as the g-Qistance traffic between terminal stations. it ;n,?asi;enSer transport by air, as in the case of sea travel, tho- 'ong-distance bookings which take preference over e which are for only comparatively short distances ;
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