2.5% fewer Air Passengers

Recently, the Air Transport of America has just released data saying that there will be 2.5% fewer passengers travelling during the 21-day holiday period, from 17 Dec to 6 Jan.

However, the bad news to the travellers is that the plane will still be crowded and packed nonetheless.

This is mainly because of the fact of the fluctuating oil prices along with the current devious financial crisis that refuses to settle down for good. There seems to be much ramifications unforseen springing up time and again. Given the fact that Dubai is joining the game, it seems that we can't let our mind rest in peace until the mid of 2010.

On the other hand, it might be actually a blessing in disguise, okay maybe not so much of a blessing but it isn't too bad either because they might cut their losses by quite a bit.

Reason being, you get to pack everyone into a flight and you have a higher tendency to get most of the flights filled this way. In turn, you might just save on the immense amount of money to fly whereby you have many flights with so little people inside it. To compress all the people into one flight might actually be more financially advisable.


Of course, you can argue that if there are more flights, there will be more passengers and the cost of the air tickets will bound to overwrite the insignificant fuel costs then. But then again, let's be more optimistic and look at the brighter side of the picture.


Perhaps, from this lesson, the airlines can plan and devise a better strategy to try to fill up future planes more effectively rather than having to sell dirt-cheap air tickets at the last minte.


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