Mobilization of resources for the upcoming winter

To prepare West Berlin for the upcoming winter, the Royal Air Force mobilized all available civilian and military transport aircraft for flight operations to Berlin-Gatow. On October 5, 1948, all twin-engine civilian charter aircraft were relocated from Lübeck to Hamburg, and flight processes and procedures were further standardized. As a result, on October 7th, the RAF achieved a new daily record of 442 short tons (equivalent to 400,976 kilograms), which they flew into the besieged Berlin via Gatow.