Catalogue description Ministry of Aviation and Board of Trade: Aviation Economic Planning and General Policy Division: Registered Files (EN Series)

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Reference: AVIA 106
Title: Ministry of Aviation and Board of Trade: Aviation Economic Planning and General Policy Division: Registered Files (EN Series)
Description:

This series contains files of the Ministry of Aviation's Aviation Economic Planning and General Policy Division and its successor at the Board of Trade, the Aviation Economics and Aircraft Branch 4. The records concern studies on the economic aspects of air transport including Concorde (and other matters relating to the early development of Concorde and its commercial prospects), advice on civil aircraft problems, tariffs for carriage by air of passengers, mail and freight and issues relating to the collection and dissemination of information about national and international civil aviation matters.

Includes papers relating to the introduction of in-flight entertainment on the Pam American Airline.
Date: 1960-1972
Related material:

For similar or related material in the Civil Aviation Departments: Air Services and International Relations Group see BT 245
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: EN Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Trade, Aviation Economic Planning and General Policy Division

Department of Trade and Industry, 1970-1974

Ministry of Aviation, Aviation Economic Planning and General Policy Division, 1960-1966
Physical description: 14 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Selection and destruction information: Files were selected for policy and precedent.
Administrative / biographical background:

Known previously as the Aviation Economics and Aircraft Branch in the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MTCA). Its work generally involved the following areas of concern: creating, analysing and appraising studies of the economic aspects of air transport involving air services, traffic aircraft and ground services; providing economic appraisals of the estimates, accounts and operating proposals of the airways corporations; advising on contemporary civil aircraft problems; estimating tariffs for the carriage by air of passengers, mail and freight; collecting, analysing and presenting statistical data relating to civil aviation and furnishing economic advice on questions of policy.

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