Colonel Errolasked the Under-Secretary of State for Air the cost per passenger, expressed in pence per passenger-mile, of transporting Service and civilian passengers by Transport Command at the present time; and has he any information regarding comparable figures for the U.S. Air Transport Command.
§ Mr. StracheyI am afraid that it would not be possible to calculate this figure without a quite undue expenditure of manhours: To know of no comparable figure for the United States Air Transport Command.