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First and business-class passenger traffic over the Atlantic declined 9 percent in November, and Asi
According to the International Air Transport Association, the dropoff is directly correlated with a decline in business travel. As Wall Street stumbles and businesses miami beach hotels reel from massive layoffs, business executives are simply not traveling at the same rate they used to.
First and business-class passenger traffic over the Atlantic declined 9 percent in November, and Asia routes were hit even harder, suffering a 17 percent decline. New York to London and U.S. to Beijing routes are among the worst-hit.
British Airways is among the worst affected airlines, seeing a 13.7 percent drop in premium traffic last month both domestic and worldwide. This has forced the company miami beach hotels to park two of its 747s for the time being. And Northwest Airlines plans to reduce its capacity to Japan, one of its overseas hubs, as its merger with Delta and the shrinking Asian economy has reduced business travel to that region by 30 percent.
The strength of the business travel market propped up the fortunes of the airline industry during the early months of the recession, at a time when discretionary leisure travel was dropping off at double-digit rates. But now business travelers seem to be watching their pennies like the rest of us, and moving from premium seats to economy class, if they are traveling at all.
Hard-won bilateral agreements between countries mean that cutting a route results in losing it entirely, which makes it unlikely that unprofitable international miami beach hotels routes will be completely scrapped. To compensate for the decline, air carriers are instead cutting the frequency of flights and switching to smaller planes. United is taking an additional step and reducing the number seats in premium class by 20 percent. And six of the biggest U.S. air carriers have plans to postpone the launch miami beach hotels of new international routes.
Despite the gloom and doom, some airlines are swimming miami beach hotels against the tide and actually adding international capacity. U.S. Airways, for example, is adding 14.8 percent more seats on non-China international routes, and Delta is adding routes miami beach hotels to places such as Haiti, Bermuda and Liberia.
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