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As the business recession which had lasted till the summer of 1972 wasovercome,
domestic air transport in our country grew to a great extent in fiscal 1973.
Air passengers registered a rise of 24.9 per cent over the previous year and
passenger-kilometers were up 26.6 per cent. In air freight transport, too, the
tonnage showed a rise of 24.6 per cent from the previous year and tonkilometers
were up 31.4 per cent.
One of the features witnessed in passenger transport is a rise in passenger
transport on local air routes. Presumably, this is due to the fact that the
net work of local air routes has been developed due to the stream-lining of
local airports, that stable air travellers have been secured as air travels
on official duty and business have been facilitated because of the assignment
of jet aircraft to local air routes, that the preference of air transport in
short-term home-going and sightseeing trips has been recognized, and that there
has been a rise in the income level of local inhabitants. (Fig.
lll-3)
When air freight transport is viewed both for the trunk and local routes,
the tonnage of freight on the trunk routes account for 76 per cent of the total
and that of freight on the local routes is 24 per cent, presenting a tendency
different from that of air passenger transport.
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