(Domestic Air Transport)

　 　 Japan's domestic air transport for the fiscal 1974, affected by the economic recession and withheld consumption due to price increases, registered 25,256 thousand people (up 7.4% from the previous fiscal year), and 17,636 million passenger-kilometers (up 10.0%) in regard to the passenger transport volume falling far short of the previous fiscal years's growth 24.9% and 26.6% respectively. Looking at trunk lines and local lines separately, growth of the number of passengers is greater in local lines than in trunk lines, and the share among the number of the domestic air transport passengers was divided into 45.3% for trunk lines and 54.7% for local lines in the fiscal 1974, as shown in (Fig. 3-(1)-3). Presumably, this is due to the fact that the network of local air route has been developed due to the stream-lining of local air ports, 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 perference of the 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.
　 　 Freight transport volume was 158,470 tons (down 10.0% from the previous fiscal year), and 124 million ton-kilometers (down 7.2% from the previous fiscal year) each going under the results of the previous fiscal year (Table 3-(1)-4). When air freight transport is viewed both for the trunk and local routes, the tonnage of freight on the trunk routes accounts for 74.0% of the total tonnage, presenting the reverse tendency against the air passenger transport.