ABSTRACT
The problems of civil aviation may only be treated in an incomplete way within the framework of a report on the question of coordination of transport. The national airlines of Europe which were at least partly founded because of considerations of national prestige have obtained such an overwhelming importance in civil aviation that the question of their coordination with smaller private companies will in actual practice hardly arise. In European civil aviation, the speed between traffic centres enables the branch of the transport industry to be in a far more advantageous competitive position compared with other means of transport. Faced with the long-distance projects of the railways, civil aviation has shown a tendency to differentiate between the services by means of an ever-increasing division in classes whereby a somewhat privileged position is created for the passenger who is sufficiently willing to pay.
