Statistics

Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce summarized U.S. air transport for 1935:

1934 1935

Miles flown* 48,786,551 63,540,233

Passengers carried* 361,370 860,761 Express carried (Ib.)*

3,449,675 5,511737

Total accidents* 46 33 Miles per accident.*

592,802 1,054,882

Fatal accidents*

4 2

Miles per fatal accident*

6,817,223 11,603,702

Pilots killed*

4 3

Passengers killed*

5 11/-

Despite the 50% rise in passenger and express business, American Airlines, largest U.S. air transport operator, last week announced it was losing $758,000 a year. Declaring that the present 33 1/3-c--a-mile mail pay rate is not sufficient, it petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission for an immediate increase, retroactive to March 1, 1935, on six of its routes, announced the only alternative is to go out of business.

*July--December.

/-Nine in United Airlines' crash at Cheyenne (TIME, Oct. 14), two in Delta Airlines' crash at Gilmer, Tex., Aug. 14.

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