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The records of international air transport achieved by the Japan Air Lines
in fiscal 1973 are indicated in Table III-1.
With respect to air passenger transport, air passengers were up 13.O per
cent from the previous fiscal year and passenger-kilometers registered a rise
of 16.7 per cent. The rise in passenger-kilometers was far smaller than the
32.1 per cent registered in the previous fiscal year, because the Japan Air
Lines was not fully capable of satisfying an increasing air transport demand
due to thefacts that the restrictions were placed on the number of flights and
that the adoption of larger aircrart had already made progress to a considerably
great extent. The consequence is that air passengers were absorbed by other
airlines which embarked on the adoption of larger aircrart in fiscal 1973, thereby
bringing about a drop in the share of the Japan Air Lines in air passenger transport.
As regards air freight, the freight tonnage registered a rise of 22.9 per
cent over the previous year and freight ton-kilometers were up 22.3 per cent.
These rises were fairly higher than those registered in the previous year (a
rise of 14.6 per cent for the tonnage and a rise of 13.9 per cent for ton-kilometers).
Commodity-wise, those which are high in freightage, such as electric appliances,
machinery and textiles, marked favorable rises.
One of the features of air freight transport in recent years is a marked
utilization of the chartered air freight transport services, by which freight
can be transported at lower rates than on the regula air transport flights.
(Table II-2)
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