{"id":97167887,"date":"2010-03-29T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/air-travel-fell-by-5-3-percent-in-2009\/"},"modified":"2014-09-22T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T11:56:50","slug":"air-travel-fell-by-5-3-percent-in-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/air-travel-fell-by-5-3-percent-in-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Travel Fell By 5.3 Percent in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>JFK Airport Terminal 4<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLess people flew into, out of or within the United States last year according to a report released today by the Transportation Department.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe recession is to blame for the decline, as 769.6 million people took to the sky in 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe data included both domestic and international travel as well as flights on foreign airlines that used the United States as a layover.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith less seats to fill, carriers cut back on using as many of their planes, which meant more crowded flights in the end.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe hardest hit category was leisure and business travel. Both have since seen signs of rebounding by 2011.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D9EODC680.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Business Week<\/a>  &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; JFK Airport Terminal 4 &nbsp; Less people flew into, out of or within the United States last year according to a report released today by the Transportation Department. &nbsp; The recession is to blame for the decline, as 769.6 million people took to the sky in 2009. &nbsp; The data included both domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-trending-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167887","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=97167887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97170015,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167887\/revisions\/97170015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}