Air Travel, Freight Declines Accelerated in November, IATA Says
Dec. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Worldwide air travel fell for a third
straight month in November, with cargo handling logging a
“shocking” decline because of weakening global trade, the
International Air Transport Association said.
Passenger traffic, or kilometers flown multiplied by the
number of travelers, slumped 4.6 percent from a year earlier,
IATA said today in a
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WASHINGTON-- First it was high gas prices, now a poor economy. People just seem turned off to the idea of traveling. AAA says that trend will continue into the holidays.
This comes just days after the six leading airlines reported a combined 5.8% quarterly loss. AAA says they expect a 2% drop in holiday travelling, and the biggest hit will likely come from the number of flights. AAA's CEO says the decline in travel is without question the result Read the rest of this entry »
Kramer, in fact, says he feels safer now than he did "in the past few years" because Mexico has bolstered law enforcement efforts, rooted out corrupt cops, and established tourist police forces in Tijuana and the Rosarito Beach district "that are trained especially to deal with tourist issues."
Tourists, Kramer says, "are basically treated like royalty down there now, because the area has become so economically depressed, so the government is doing Read the rest of this entry »
compare September travel numbers with the downturn that accompanied the SARS scare of 2003.
First off, the International Air Transport Association put out a strongly worded press release this morning headlined “Alarming Drop for September International Traffic.”
“The deterioration in traffic is alarmingly fast-paced and widespread. We have not seen such a decline in passenger traffic since SARS in 2003,” said
, IATA’s Read the rest of this entry »
ALEM, N.H. - Proponents of restoring passenger train service between Boston and Manchester worry a new transit study will derail their efforts.
A draft report presented recently to New Hampshire and Massachusetts transportation officials recommends using "bus-on-shoulder" travel as the chief means of reducing future congestion on Interstate 93. Commuters would get picked up at park-and-ride terminals by express buses that would travel in a 12-foot-wide Read the rest of this entry »