HC Deb 01 July 1936 vol 314 cc421-2W
Mr. ROSTRON DUCKWORTH

asked the Under-Secretary of State for Air what is the present approximate weekly number of passengers being carried by British air-transport companies on internal air routes; and how this number compares with the June average during each of the past three years?

Sir P. SASSOON

As the Air Ministry is at present dependent upon statistics supplied voluntarily by operating companies, and complete statistics are not available, I am not in a position to supply the information desired by my how Friend. All I can say is that the total number of passengers by internal air routes for the complete years 1933, 1934 and 1935, in so far as the figures have been notified to the Department, were 22,000, 72,700 and 111,700 respectively.