"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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"Skylune" wrote:

by "Dave Stadt" Mar 21, 2006 at 03:37 PM

Don't they use passenger miles? It gives them a big number which looks
impressive.



You are getting into an area I had some (former) professional expertise
in: they use passenger miles, passenger revenue miles, boardings as
their
primary operational statistics. Passenger revenue miles is a primary
metric they use to determine fare structures (it measures only paying
customers) and usage.

And -- big airports use "enplanements" to define "busy", even though the
only proper way to define "busy," relating to runway/airspace issues is
takeoffs and landings.

Think I will start using that. My plane is a two enplanement model. Pretty
snazzy, eh.