ABSTRACT
Britain has in the past followed Europe rather than America in neglecting to view air transport as an enterprise to be developed on normal business lines; as a business that should be governed, as most business is governed, by the enduring principle of supply and demand. American air transport is to-day leading the world partly because its growth has not been hampered by such preoccupations as international politics, national prestige and inevitable war. The Americans know the uses of advertisement. Private interests, into whose hands was transferred the greater share of air transport development, set to work to foster a public opinion that would be in every way favourable to flying. With the aerial tramp, while flexibility implies a greater number of smaller aircraft, the standard of speed and safety must in every way equal that of the larger, and possibly subsidised, aircraft used on regular routes.
