from Kowloon, is most conveniently situated for passengers. The hotel in Kowloon which contains the offices of most of the airlines also accommodates many passengers who are in transit and is the assembly point for others. The year's total of passengers using the airport was 320,000 as compared with about 250,000 in 1948 and 81,800 in 1947 and rose from 21,000 in the first month to a maximum of 41,000 in August. Thereafter traffic decreased owing to the civil war in China and the cessation of flying by the two Chinese airlines towards the end of the year. To carry this traffic 25,000 aircraft on international flights arrived or departed as compared with 14,000 in 1948 and 5,400 in 1947 and in addition there was much local civil and service flying. On some occasions aircraft movements amounted to 250 in a day and one landing or take off every five minutes was
common.
The companies shown below fly regular services, but flights to China are at the moment in abeyance:-
Routes
Company
Nationality
British Overseas Airways. Corp.
British
United Kingdom Singapore
Japan.
Hong Kong Airways Ltd.
British
Canton
Shanghai.
Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
British
Philippines
Singapore
Australia.
Canadian Pacific Airlines Ltd.
British
Canada
Qantas Empire Airways
British
Australia
Macau Airtransport Co. (Hong Kong)
Ltd.
British
Macau
Central Air Transport Corp.
Chinese
Shanghai
China National Aviation Corp.
Chinese
Canton
China, other points.
Shanghai
Pan American World Airways
Air France
U. S. A.
French
Philippine Air Lines Inc.
Philippine
Canton
China, other points
India
U.S.A.
Thailand
U. S. A.
France Haiphong
Philippines
Trans-Asiatic Airlines Inc.
Philippine
Philippines
Siamese Airways Co. Ltd.
Siamese
Siam
Pacific Overseas Airlines (Siam) Ltd.) Siamese
Siam
Trans-Asiatic Airlines (Siam) Ltd.
Siamese
Siam
Braathens S.A.F.E. Airtransport A/S Norwegian
Norway
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