Last year, airport traffic increased 5percenttoto 120,000 flights, and the number of passenger arrivals rose 3percenttoto 20.5 million people, the officials said.
"American recently made the largest aircraft order in industry history, and its post-bankruptcy standalone plan called for increasing both the number of flights and the number of destinations served by those flights at each of its hubs".
COUNTY officials expect to submit legislation this month to maintain limits on both the number of scheduled commercial flights and the number of passengers flying in and out of the Westchester County Airport, according to the county's transportation commissioner.
Analysts said the mergers could also lead to higher fares in some markets, at least in the short term, as combined carriers reduced flights and the number of seats, and used their increased market power to raise prices.
In terms of chartered flights and the number of fans spending money at New Orleans businesses, Texas also trailed Virginia Tech.
The scores are based on a calculation that factors in criteria such as the rate of lost luggage, the on-time performance of the carriers, the number of passengers booted off of overbooked flights and the number of complaints filed with federal regulators.
Air travel mobility is obtained from the International Air Transport Association (IATA [ 36]) database that contains the list of worldwide airport pairs connected by direct flights and the number of available seats on any given connection [ 37].
Long-range air travel mobility is based on travel flow data obtained from the International Air Transport Association (IATA [ 24]) and the Official Airline Guide (OAG [ 25]) databases, which contain the list of worldwide airport pairs connected by direct flights and the number of available seats on any given connection [ 26].
The software then takes note of the fares people are booking on a coming flight and estimates the number that will not show.
A traveler leaving Los Angeles for New York, for example, would program the scheduled flight time and the number of time zones to cross, and the watch would speed up to cover nine hours in a six-hour flight.
