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AS OTHERS SEE US
IMPERIAL RELIABILITY
In a recent issue of Flight - the senior aeronautical newspaper published in Great Britain -
the following tribute was paid to the services of Imperial Airways:
'Few of the figures in the statistics published in the Report on Civil Aviation in 1932 give cause for
greater satisfaction than those showing the reliability achieved by Imperial Airways' routes. For the
whole year 3,504 flights were scheduled on the European routes, and 3,280 were completed, 39 were
not completed and 185 were cancelled. On the London-Egypt service 593 flights were scheduled and
593 were completed. On the Egypt-South Africa route 2,314 flights were scheduled and 2,304 were
completed. On the Egypt-India service 995 flights were scheduled, all of which were completed.
That, we submit, is a record of which Imperial Airways may well be proud, and which speaks well
not only of the aeroplanes and engines used, but of the efficiency of Imperial's maintenance service'.
The report referred to - Report on the Progress of Civil Aviation - has just been published by the Directorate
of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry, and may be obtained (at the cost of 5s.) from His Majesty's Stationery
Office. This publication is an invaluable work of reference and all those who are interested in aerial
transport will find much of interest in its pages.
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