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FLIGHT International. 27 August 1964 AIR COMMERCE . 317 North Atlantic Facts and Figures AT the recent ATLB hearing of Caledonian Airways' bid for"Loftleidir"-type cut-rate propeller fares across the North Atlantic the airline produced a monster statistical brief in support of its case. Some of the information is too useful to disappear into the archives of the ATLB, a body which publishes only very limited statistical information of any use to the industry. Since all evidence produced at ATLB hearings is public, except for financial infor- mation which applicants ask the Board to keep confidential, it is always open for examination and could be published. The industry would be prepared to pay for an ATLB "Handbook of UK Airline Statistics", which could much enrich the business. Operators are particularly interested in traffic route by route. Although such information is called for by the Ministry of Aviation, it is not published. It is evidently available on application, however, for "Source: MoA" often appears—as it does in the Caledonian brief—at the foot of statistical data submitted to the Board in support of applications. The information could well be published to supplement the Ministry's very useful collective monthly and annual traffic details. It should, incidentally, be the ATLB's job to call for, collate and publish traffic statistics, since it is the ATLB and not the Ministry of Aviation which is concerned with the regulation of British air transport. Table 1 is typical of the information which would be much more useful published than tucked away in a Ministry filing cabinet. Table 2 comes from IATA Reports, which are normally available only to member airlines; table 4 comes from a TWA exhibit at a CAB hearing; and tables 3 and 5 are based on a Caledonian Airways examination of airline guides and other sources. 1959 I960 1961 !962 1963 Table 1: UK—USA—UK Scheduled To UK 198,869 250,005 250,663 289,794 323.498 From UK 198,362 261,779 265,431 302,612 336,928 Total 397,231 511,784 516,094 592,406 660,426 Passengers To UK 20,789 31.270 36,403 39,646 50.918 Charter From UK 11,698 22,454 25,388 31,422 43,201 Total 32,487 53,724 61,791 71,068 94,119 Table 2:' Air France Air-IndiaAlitalia BOAC IberiaIrish KLM LufthansaPan American Qantas Sabena SAS SwissairTrans World Airlines rransatlantic IATA Charter Passengers 1959 187 5,203 5.071 _ 20,201 2,772 17.660 3,715 3,945 3,485102,007* 164.246 I960 970 2,368 3T.294 9381,501 24,562 14,190 21,767 2,705 13,101 5,21733.755 152,368 1961 352 3471,845 35,919 6945,313 28,821 19,437 22.490 —— 10,056 7,93110,996 144,201 1962 4,049 4,532 19.697 97517,206 27,294 15,456 32,366 12,771 14,9242,945 152,215 1963 31.634 5,503 12,898 55.724 1,20919,221 37,800 25,275 16,014 19,664 12,562 15,9469,976 263,426 »|nera' n°te: Excludes military charters that can be identified as such after 1961. Primarily military. Source: IATA Reports Table 3: New York - London Market, June 1964 Carrier Air-India Alitalia BOAC El Al Icelandic PAA Qantas TWA Equipment Boeing 707 DC-8 Boeing 707/720 Boeing 707/720 DC-6B 707 and DC-8 Boeing 707 Boeing 707 Flights 14 14 56 6 2 42 6 35 ~J75 Seats per aircraft 132 136 137 152/122 83 128 137 142 Total seats 1,848 1,904 7,672 792 166 5,376 822 4.970 "iiTiio Table A Origin or Destination London Paris Frankfurt Rome Lisbon Madrid Athens Shannon Milan Istanbul Stuttgart Barcelona AmsterdamSanta Maria Ankara 32 Others Europe t Most important Gateways Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 1314 15 16-47 Total US-carrier passengers 255,496 134,686 95,184 58.885 34,992 29,773 14,401 12,175 8,589 6,408 6.258 5,499 5,0194,973 4,872 59,624 736,834* % total 34.68 18.28 12.92 7.99 4.75 4.04 1.95 1.65 1.17 .87 .85 .75 .68.68 .66 8.08 100.00 •Of which PAA carried 458,398 and TWA 278.436. Source: CAB Docket 13577 Table S: History of New York - London Fares—$ I! Period in effect 5/1/1952-3/31/1953 4/I/I953-3/3I/I954 4/1/1954-6/30/1955 7/1/1955-9/30/1956I0/I/I956-3/3I/I958 4/I/I958-3/3I/I959 4/I/I959-3/3I/I960 4/I/I960-4/3I/I960 5/1/1960-6/30/1960 7/1/1960-9/30/1960 I0/I/I96O-3/3I/I96I4/I/I96I-9/30/I96I 10/1/1961-3/30/1962 4/1 /1962-9/30/1962 I0/I/I962-5/11/1963" 5/12/1963-7/15/1963* 7/16/1963-3/31/1964 4/1/1964- Class T T T TT Tlu T E T E T EE EE E E E E E E E(H) Jet One- way 320 320 320320 320320 320 270 270 270 263 210 255 Round- trip 576 576 576576 576576 576 486 486 513 499.70 399 484.50 Prop One- way 270 275 290 290290 315 252320 257 320 257 320 250 250 240250 240 250 240 250 243 cancelled High Season or regu- lar round trip 486 495 522 522522 567 453.60 576 462.60576 462 576 450 450 432450 432 450 432 475 461.70 cancelled Low season 417 425 425 482». 1 Accompanied by introduction of off-season family fares during off season. ' PAA filed similar tariff which was effective 5/28/63. Note: As from April I, 1964, E from USA was from April I-May 21 and from August 4-May 21, 1965. Peak Economy class is May 22-August 3, 1964. Economy to the USA is from April I-July 16 and from September 29-July 16, 1965. Peak Economy is from July I7-September 28. T introduced May I, 1952; E introduced April I, 1958; T withdrawn June 30. 1960. . .. and a Postscript DID you know that Viscounts still carry more UK passengers— nearly 3m—than any other type ? That the British United companies do nearly one-half the total inclusive-tour business? How many hours do Channel Airways' Doves fly? Whether you do or do not know the answers to these questions, it is likely that the Ministry's new publication Operating and Traffic Statistics of United Kingdom Airlines will come in very bandy. At a time when the Ministry seems to have become an almost entirely negative department, rushing areund putting a stop to things, it is good to be able to applaud and record something creative. There are two particularly useful features of these new statistics: (1) they are presented in the same format as are ICAO statistics, but broken down to show markets of particular British interest (e.g. vehicle ferries, inclusive tours); and (2) aircraft operating statistics are presented type by type and operator by operator. This first issue covers the year ended March 31, 1963 only, but publication will no doubt catch up with events. They are to appear quarterly and also on a calendar-year basis. All we need now—and it is a big need—are traffic statistics route-by-route, and economic facts and figures. But let not the best be tke enemy of the good—which is what this new publication is.
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