{"id":94691685,"date":"2011-05-16T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airline-forecast-calls-for-record-international-traffic-this-summer\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:04:00","slug":"airline-forecast-calls-for-record-international-traffic-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/airline-forecast-calls-for-record-international-traffic-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline Forecast Calls for Record International Traffic This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>International traffic will rise this summer despite lingering economic fears <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUS airlines expect to carry a record number of international travelers between June and August, topping last summer&rsquo;s record of 25.8 million international passengers, according to the Air Transport Association.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe association represents major US carriers including American Airlines and Delta. In total, US airlines expect to transport 206.2 million passengers for the summer period, up nearly 3 million from 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe industry is showing signs of life despite the lingering effects of the global recession and the uncertainty surrounding fuel prices.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe association&rsquo;s chief economist, John Heimlich, noted that business and leisure travel has so far held up much better than airlines expected heading into this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-05-16\/u-s-airlines-set-for-record-number-of-international-travelers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; International traffic will rise this summer despite lingering economic fears &nbsp; US airlines expect to carry a record number of international travelers between June and August, topping last summer&rsquo;s record of 25.8 million international passengers, according to the Air Transport Association. &nbsp; The association represents major US carriers including American Airlines and Delta. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94691685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94691685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94691685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94691685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94691685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94691685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}