The Archive · 1936

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The report for 1995-36 of the Directorate. of Civil Aviation of the Government of India shows remarkable increases in the carrying of malls find. passengers across India, "The mileage of air routes in India for 1038 totals 6308 compared. veith 5,830 in 1934, The total for the British Empire is now 53,201, an increase of '1,901 miles over 1934, The figures for mails and passengers to and from India show a striking improvement, Imperial Airways carrying 822 tons oft mail sind 988 passengers, compared: with 69.2 tons of mail and 606 pas-tengers the year before." Mall trac onthe trans-India service me Sreased at an even more satisfactory fate than that on the Bngland-India service, the percentage increase for the year reaching 128.5 per cent, as compared with 39 per cent, on the Groydon-Karacht section, Passenger trafic on the trans-India route has also shown improvement. The volume of thie trae is expressed Invpuscengertonlit nce edi dual passengers may £7 over only one over the entire distance from Karachi to Singapore.

Ths table list rates the increase:—

1933 Passenger ton miles

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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