RickSeaney.com

• Home
• About
• Feedback
• U.S. Domestic Airline Fee Chart
• Airfare Hikes 2008 - Timeline
• Airline Carry-On Baggage Chart
• Frequent Flier Award, Redemption and Fee Chart
• Airline Ticket Fuel Surcharge Watch
• A Twitter-Tailored Vacation in Italy

Search

Categories

• 20/20 (3)
• ABC News (65)
• Airbus (7)
• Airfare Increases (134)
• Airfare Mistakes (8)
• Airfare Sales (120)
• Airfares (111)
• Airline Fees (131)
• Airlines (468)
• Airplanes (89)
• Airport (137)
• AirTran (11)
• Alaska (8)
• Allegiant (1)
• Alliances (8)
• American (97)
• Asia (2)
• Ask Rick (9)
• Australia (2)
• Bags (76)
• Business Travel (46)
• cargo (4)
• Cheap Airfare Sales (100)
• China (5)
• CNN (4)
• Continental (41)
• Customer Service (169)
• Daily Read (15)
• Deals (21)
• Delays (63)
• Delta (67)
• Destinations (92)
• Did You Know (30)
• doctors (5)
• DOT (38)
• Dreamliner (9)
• Educate Yourself (21)
• ESTA (1)
• Europe (52)
• Family (24)
• Favorites (18)
• First Class (33)
• Flight Attendants (29)
• Forecast (28)
• Frequent Flyer (34)
• Fuel Surcharges (84)
• Fuel Watch (30)
• Gadgets (5)
• Geek Data (35)
• Green (7)
• Grumpy Santa (8)
• Hawaii (5)
• Holiday Travel (82)
• ID Theft (1)
• JetBlue (16)
• Las Vegas (8)
• Lavatories (3)
• List (24)
• Lodging (2)
• Luxury (1)
• Mergers (23)
• Midwest (8)
• Miscellaneous (14)
• Mistake Fare (1)
• New York (15)
• News (153)
• Northwest (35)
• Open Skies (7)
• Passengers (78)
• Passport (12)
• Pets (15)
• Pilots (54)
• Pricing Activity (40)
• Private Jet (6)
• Quick Brief (2)
• Radio (5)
• Ryanair (11)
• Security (73)
• Senior Travel (3)
• Silverjet (3)
• South America (1)
• Southwest (80)
• Spirit (7)
• Sports (10)
• Storms (18)
• Taxes (4)
• Ticket Changes (6)
• Tips and Tricks (68)
• Travel Myths (24)
• Travel Safety (97)
• TV News (10)
• Twitter (7)
• Uncategorized (16)
• United (73)
• US Airways (45)
• Video (9)
• Virgin (23)
• Virgin America (25)
• Visa (2)
• Weather (29)
• Weekly Roundup (16)
• WestJet (2)
• WiFi (10)

Archives

• July 2009 (6)
• June 2009 (72)
• May 2009 (58)
• April 2009 (74)
• March 2009 (74)
• February 2009 (63)
• January 2009 (65)
• December 2008 (70)
• November 2008 (65)
• October 2008 (73)
• September 2008 (72)
• August 2008 (101)
• July 2008 (85)
• June 2008 (77)
• May 2008 (86)
• April 2008 (75)
• March 2008 (54)
• February 2008 (39)
• January 2008 (63)
• December 2007 (46)
• November 2007 (69)
• October 2007 (54)
• September 2007 (57)
• August 2007 (57)
• July 2007 (39)

May 6, 2008

The First Signs of Softening Demand for Air Travel?

Whether due to rising airfare prices or a struggling economy, we’re seeing the first signs of softening demand for air travel. April saw a decrease in air traffic among five of the six legacy carriers, with American experiencing the largest drop from last April (6.6%). While April numbers might be a bit skewed as Easter occurred in March this year, that definitely doesn’t completely account for the overall decline in traffic. Check out Bloomberg.com for an in depth look at April air travel and insight into how the major airlines performed.