At present, four-fifths of government money goes to companies that account for less than a fifth of passenger miles.
Mullin said that Delta's passenger miles since the attacks have been running about 60 percent of the level normally expected.
Passenger traffic for the carrier declined in the third quarter, indicated by a 0.6% y-o-y decline in Revenue Passenger Miles.
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The total number of passenger miles increased from under 1.5 trillion a year in 1980 to 2.4 trillion in 1995.
System-wide traffic at American Airlines increased 1.3% in June over the same period a year ago, hitting 11.4 million revenue passenger miles (RPMs).
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They worry more about tornadoes (130 deaths a year) than crossing the street (2, 708 deaths), more about commercial jets (0.03 deaths per 100 million passenger miles) than about driving at night (16, 480 between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m.).
Delta, United, American, Southwest and Alaska were all over 7.5% of revenue passenger miles with awards. (A revenue passenger mile, or one passenger flying one mile, is the standard measure of traffic for airlines.) Alaska was best at a hefty 9% of revenue passenger miles on frequent-flier awards.
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In the 30 years since airline deregulation, passenger revenue miles have tripled.
Since the 1970s, through oil shocks, Middle East wars, terrorist attacks and disease outbreaks, the number of passenger-miles flown seems always to have snapped back to its long-term growth trend (see chart 1).
Plus we're still driving as much as we did five years ago, 1.7 trillion passenger-car-miles a year.
At some airports the passenger gates can be several miles from the runway.
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To understand individual consumption, we need data on the percentage of light duty vehicle miles specifically for passenger use (versus business or government fleet use).
Just for reference, the average passenger car obtains 20.3 miles per gallon.
Since 2000, reports the Air Transport Association of America, there's been a 21% drop in passenger volume for flights of 500 miles or less.
The 4-cylinder, 5-passenger car consistently gets more than 50 miles to the gallon in combined city and highway driving.
Honda announced in June that, by 2009, it will market an all-new hybrid vehicle, the company's fourth, and offer a clean diesel passenger car that will likely get 45 miles to the gallon.
If not, the alternate, passenger-train-ready BNSF tracks many miles to the south beckon.
Current CAFE calls for automakers' passenger car fleets to average 27.5 miles per gallon, and their so-called "light-truck" fleet to average 21.0 miles per gallon.
That mileage corresponds with the government estimate that passenger vehicle owners typically drive about 12, 000 miles per year.
By comparison, passenger jets cruise at an altitude of about six miles.
Fleet-wide fuel economy for passenger cars must jump to an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, from 32.8 miles per gallon this year.
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It's the fastest passenger plane in the world, with a top speed of 700 miles an hour.
Delta Air Lines was founded in the city of Macon, Georgia (originally as a crop-dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters) and later moved its headquarters about 85 miles north to Atlanta in 1941 (after running its first passenger flights under the name Delta Air Service in 1929).
The Leaf, a five-passenger, all-electric vehicle that will have a range of about 100 miles, will go on sale in the U.S. in December.
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Last November, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation proposed a new set of rules that will require passenger cars and light trucks to achieve a combined average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
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