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Originally posted by pteridine
What happened to this thread? I thought that we were discussing the manufacturing industry and, once again, we are talking about airplane condensation trails.
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...831 million passengers flew internationally and 1,249 million flew within their own country of residence. This represents an 11% growth in international traffic and an 8% growth in domestic traffic relative to 2006.
The world's airlines are scheduled to operate 2% more flights for May 2008 compared with the same month last year. According to the latest statistics from OAG (Official Airline Guide), the world's authority on flight information, this represents an additional 40,000 flights, which is half as many additional flights as last month's year-on-year figures. Capacity for May is up by 3%, representing an additional 10.1 million seats compared with the same month last year. A month ago the year-on-year rise in capacity was 5%.