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216 HELICOPTER AIR SERVICE PROGRAM Senator MONRONEY. Are we going to get to the one essential thing, and that is have a reasonably priced helicopter ticket? I don't think I can afford $20 to go from a downtown heliport to an airport in New York or in Los Angeles. I think I would get up about an hour earlier and take a bus. I do notice in coming into La Guardia, I invariably take a taxi to come in because my taxi will save me 30 minutes over bus time, and it is $3 or $4 to come in compared with about $2 for a bus at the present time. I would think that a helicopter trip that would be slightly over the taxi trip, unless it gets exorbitant on the loner distance to Newark - why don't you put that in? I think it would be wise to put a table in showing the cost for the bus to each of the airports, the cost of the taxi, with one person, and the cost to go by helicopter. I think that would give us the best comparison of costs that we have, if you will put that in the record at this point. Mr. CUMMINGS. Very well, sir. (The following information was subsequently received:) NEW YORK AIRWAYS, INC., Flushing, N.Y., March 16, 1965. AVIATION SUBCOMMITTEE, Senate Committee on Commerce, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. GENTLEMEN: During the course of the helicopter hearings before the Aviation Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Senator Monroney asked New York Airways to supply for the record the portion of domestic joint fare passengers to and from West Coast points. As the record shows, New York Airways conducted an inter-line ticket survey of all tickets collected during the period February 11-20, 1965. During the period of this survey, 53 out of 1,054 domestic joint fare passengers or 5% were destined to points on the West Coast. The survey also showed that 511 passengers or almost half traveled between New York and points on the systems of Eastern, Delta and Braniff. As you know, these carriers primarily serve southern and southwestern points. Very truly yours, RICHARD WHEATLAND, Vice President, Traffic and Sales. New York cost and travel time comparison [[11 columned table]] | Between | Direct line distance | New York airways helicopter Fare | New York airways helicopter Fare per seat mile Cents | New York airways helicopter Time | Taxi - single occupancy Fare | Taxi - single occupancy Time Peak | Taxi - single occupancy Time Off-peak | Airport coach 1 Fare | Airport coach 1 Time Peak | Airport coach 1 Time Off-peak | | Newark to- Kennedy | 21 | $10.00 | 47.6 | 12 | $16.35 | 97 | 70 | $3.25 | 2 118 | 2 70 | | Newark to- Wall St | 9 | 9.00 | 100.0 | 6 | [[strikethrough]] 1.55 [[/strikethrough]] | 35 | 24 | 3.60 | 3 62 | 3 49 | | Wall St. to Kennedy | 12 | 8.00 | 66.6 | 8 | 5.50 | 67 | 38 | 4.00 | 3 85 | 3 52 | | La Guardia to- Kennedy | 10 | 6.00 | 60.0 | 7 | [[strikethrough]] 4.40 [[/strikethrough]] | 26 | 23 | 1.35 | 35 | 32 | | La Guardia to- Wall St. | 8 | 7.00 | 87.5 | 6 | 3.00 | 37 | 23 | 3.75 | 3 65 | 3 38 | | La Guardia to- Newark | 16 | 10.00 | 62.5 | 10 | 14.05 | 98 | 56 | 3.00 | 3 98 | 2 56 | | Eastside airlines terminal to- Kennedy | | | | | | | | 1.75 | 60 | 32 | | Eastside airlines terminal to- La Guardia | | | | | | | | 1.50 | 40 | 18 | | Westside airlines terminal to Newark | | | | | | | | 1.50 | 28 | 23 | 1 Taxi to Eastside or Westside Airlines Terminal plus coach to airport. 2 Plus transfer time of 38 minutes at peak hours and 33 minutes at off peak hours. 3 Plus transfer time of 20 minutes at peak hours and 15 minutes at off peak hours. Sources: Port of New York Authority ground travel time study, NYA local fares tariff and book of official CAB airline route maps and airport to airport mileages.
