§ 72. Mr. de Freitasasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation how many passenger-miles were flown in the last twelve months by passenger-carrying aircraft of the nationalised air Corporations and private airline operators, respectively.
§ Mr. WatkinsonTotal passenger-miles flown by the air Corporations during the twelve months ended January, 1956, the latest date to which figures are available, were 1,755 million. I do not receive corresponding total figures for the independent companies but, according to the last Annual Report of the British Independent Air Transport Association, independent companies in membership of that Association flew 573 million passenger-miles in the twelve months ended June, 1955. In this period, the figure for the Corporations was 1,570 million.