{"id":97167696,"date":"2010-06-10T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-number-of-people-flying-on-u-s-airlines-rose-in-march-by-2-4-percent\/"},"modified":"2010-06-10T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T13:56:00","slug":"the-number-of-people-flying-on-u-s-airlines-rose-in-march-by-2-4-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/the-number-of-people-flying-on-u-s-airlines-rose-in-march-by-2-4-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Number of People Flying on U.S. Airlines Rose in March by 2.4 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>U.S. airlines saw an increase in passengers this March<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn March, the number of people flying on U.S. airlines rose by 2.4% to 62.4 million from 60.8 million a year ago, according to a statistics report by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation that came out Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNumbers remain below 67.5 million, the peak of 2008 but top the 60 million witnessed in March 2004 as the industry recovered from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe March numbers following the 9\/11 attacks fell close to 9% from the prior year to 53.7 million.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/people-flying-on-us-airlines-rose-24-in-march-2010-06-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_blank\"><em> Market Watch <\/em><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; U.S. airlines saw an increase in passengers this March &nbsp; In March, the number of people flying on U.S. airlines rose by 2.4% to 62.4 million from 60.8 million a year ago, according to a statistics report by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation that came out Thursday. &nbsp; Numbers remain below 67.5 million, the [&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-97167696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167696","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=97167696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}