§ LORD FORBESasked Her Majesty's Government:
The number, by months during the previous twelve months, of scheduled B.E.A. flights due to land at or take off from (a) Edinburgh; (b) Aberdeen; that have been unable either to land or to take off due to weather conditions (including adverse wind direction), and to state what percentage at each airport this figure represents compared with the number of B.E.A. flights as scheduled.
§ LORD CHESHAMThe information is as follows:—
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Month Total number of scheduled B.E.A. flights due land or take-off Total number of flights cancelled or diverted due to weather (including adverse wind direction) Percentage (a) Edinburgh (Turnhouse) 1963— July 608 44 7.2 August 581 2 0.3 September 537 6 1.1 October 556 32 5.8 November 533 32 6.0 December 525 27 5.1 1964— January 538 17 3.1 February 513 17 3.3 March 543 2 0.4 April 596 17 2.9 May 602 53 8.8 June 640 2 0.3 (b) Aberdeen 1963— July 296 8 2.7 August 298 — — September 252 — — October 244 — — November 217 — — December 215 — — 1964— January 226 2 0.9 February 215 14 6.6 March 225 2 0.9 April 264 3 1.1 May 272 13 4.8 June 314 — — NOTE: For the purposes of this table "double counting" in two senses has been necessary, (i) in the case of diverted or cancelled flights scheduled to make transit stops at either airport, both the failure to land and to take off at that airport have been included; (ii) cancelled flights between the two airports have been included in both the Edinburgh and Aberdeen figures.
House adjourned at half past seven o'clock.