However, the article was overly bleak.
That might sound overly bleak, given that airplanes have been crowded all summer.
However, Li, who said environment experts and policymakers had been aware of the higher numbers since the start of this year, cautioned against an overly bleak reading of the figures.
Although Mr. Harteveldt said he thought the trade group's survey painted an overly bleak picture, he predicted that business travel could fall significantly if the economy continued to weaken.
Its view of Hollywood may strike even the most cynical viewer as overly bleak, but Mr. Rose and his cast have an unerring feel for the speech patterns and social codes of ambitious young film-industry players.
Robert Wolf, chairman of UBS Americas, and one of Mr. Obama's earliest supporters on Wall Street, agreed, and accused the news media of painting an overly bleak picture of the economy: "Since I sat here a year ago, we have two million jobs that have been created," he said.
