AMERICAN AIR LINES

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1932, Page 6

AMERICAN AIR LINES

NO DECREASE IN PASSENGERS

Passenger figures for 1931 on commercial air lines in America show no falling off in spite of decreased travel in tlie United States and a general contraction of business. . The total number of people carried on the air lines during the first ten months of 1931 was greater than the number carried during the entire year of 1930. The figures for 1930 were 41.7,00 d; for 1931 up to the end of October they showed a total of 428,1 405. A smaller, hut the less • definite, increase in passengers was | shown on British and European air j j Ijnes, although in latter cases the I greatest increase was recorded in mail and parcel matter, in some instances | the increase being as much as 44 per cent, over the 1930 figures. I British Imperial Aindays attribute J the percentage increase on all of their j mail services to the increasing faith of commercial concerns in the scheduled running of mail-carrying machines and to the improved time-tables of air mail services, making a more startling comparison with surface transport. The Shell Company, whose fuel and oil is used on the majority of the British Imperial Airways' services, had also assisted in the ground organisation of many of the now routes.