§ Captain GARRO-JONESasked the Secretary of State for Air the mileage flown in 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1926 by the civil aircraft of Great Britain, Germany, France and Russia, respectively?
— 1921. 1923. 1925. 1926. Great Britain … … 225,000 943,000 862,000 794,000 Germany … … 1,028,000 446,000 3,075,000 3,816,000 France … … 1,471,000 2,117,000 2,946,000 Not yet available. No official figures are available fog Russia.
The reduction in the mileage figures for British commercial aircraft in the last two years is due to the adoption by His Majesty's Government of the policy of subsidising on the basis of "horse-power mileage," with the object of encouraging the employment of more highly-powered machines and thus enabling British air transport to develop towards a self-supporting basis. Thus, though the actual mileage flown is smaller, there has been a marked increase in the passenger and ton mileage, the increase in the former being over 40 per cent.