A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 6: Transportation Facilities, Rail-Air-Highways-Water Page: 36
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There Will Be An Even Greater Increase in the Future. The
National Resources Planning Board estimates a potential annual passenger
traffic of 600,000,000 ton miles within the next 10 to 20 years. This
would mean in the vicinity of 20,000,000 scheduled passengers per year.
Based upon Dallas ' present radio of national traffic, it would have, if
this estimate is correct, 1,400,000 scheduled air passengers per year by
1960. At the present time there are 46 flights per day of scheduled
air transports carrying passengers in and out of Dallas. There is an
average of 8.1 scheduled passengers per scheduled flight. If the number
of scheduled passengers per flight would double, the number of scheduled
flights in and out. of Dallas would have to increase to 117 per day by 1960
to accommodate the 1,400,000 estimated annual scheduled passengers.,
Air Mail
The Volume of Air Mail has increased every year. Since 1934,
domestic air mail pound miles in the United States have increased more
than 400 per cent. One Dallas company alone reported 2,484,601 pounds
of air mail carried during August 1943, an increase of 92.1 per cent.
Air Mail is Expected to Increase to a Volume Requiring Separate
Planes. Transportation of mail by air now takes place almost exclusively
in the same planes that carry passengers0 After the war, it is quite
possible that a large portion or all of the first class mail will be trans-
ferred to the air. If this is done, there would be a volume of mail sufficient
to require additional planes to perform this service alone. In areas where
airports are not available or where the volume of mail would not justify a
landing, mail would be collected by smaller planes using a recently perfected
device enabling them to pick up the mail while still in flight0 The National
Recourses Planning Board has estimated that this would increase the ton miles
of air mail from the present annual total of 9,400,000 to 65,000,000 pounds.
To transfer all first class mail to the air on just the primary routes
would require between 800. and 1,000 transport planes. To handle 90 per cent
of all first class mail would require the establishment of some 200 feeder
routes using in the vicinity of 1,000 additional smaller planes,,
This Will Bring More Air Traffic to Dallas. Should this program be
followed, there will be many more plane landings in Dallas, both of the
larger planes serving the primary routes and the smaller planes serving the
surrounding communities. All of these operations will require terminal
facilities0
Air Express
There is But Little Question that Specially Designed Cargo Aircraft
Will Be Used for Air Express in the Future0 Dallas was one of 26 cities of
the nation to witness the start of the air cargo service 16 years ago.
Shipments increased from 17,000 in 1928 to more than 1,405,000 in 1942.
One airline company alone reports 2,043,958 pounds of express carried during
August 1943, an increase of 92.1 per cent. However, in the United States,
air express has had a volume of only one one-thousandth of comparable railway
express. Tremendous expansion can be expected in this field.- 36 -
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Harland Bartholomew and Associates. A Master Plan for Dallas, Texas, Report 6: Transportation Facilities, Rail-Air-Highways-Water, report, July 1944; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803747/m1/60/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Municipal Archives.