PART　III　 AIR TRANSPORT

Chapter　1　 Present Status of Air Transport

(International Air Transport)

　 　 The records of international air transport achieved by the Japan Air Lines in fiscal 1974 are indicated in (Table 3-(1)-1), with paid ton-kilometers notching as small as 0.l%. Volume of passenger transport was 2,287 thousand persons and 12,638 million passenger-kilometers, down 11.1% and up 2.2% respectively from the previous fiscal year, drastically changing the picture of the past 20 years where both the number of people and passenger-kilometers used to grow as high as more than 10% every year. In addition to a fall in the overall demand for the air transport caused by the economic recession and ebbing consumption, the weakend competitive power in the area of south-east Asia due to the stop of Taipei line from April 1974 is considered to have caused the above poor performance.
　 　 Freight transport, also suffering from the recession of economy inside and outside Japan, fell to 86 thousand tons and 650,310 thousand ton-kilometers, down 8.8% and 4.5% respectively from the previous fiscal year. Comparing next Japan's international air transport volume to the one of the world, Japan was no exception among the world-wide air transports with stagnated growth, as indicated in (Table 3-(1)-2). Though Japan's share in the world's air transport slightly dipped from the previous year, Japan's ranking was 4th in the world in passenger-kilometers, and 5th in the world both for freight ton-kilometers and paid ton-kilometers staying in the same level from the previous year.