On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 at 12:03:50 in message
outaviation.com,
Skylune wrote:

When the airlines quotes their numbers how do you think they count
them? I flew 10 legs on airlines in 2005. I'll bet I count as 10
passengers.

I am pretty sure that you will have been counted as 20 passengers. One
for each take off and landing. You arrived at an airport and you left
from an airport.

Think of the airport management. You climb into an aircraft and fly out.
One passenger to them. You land at another airport. That airport logs
you in as a passenger arrival.

So my wife and I who flew to three main destinations last year in the
USA and had 2 legs on each flight which made 8 flights altogether, so we
probably clocked up as 32 passengers. That seemed to be the most
economical way to do what we wanted at the time.

It included a very short scheduled flight from Santa Anna in L.A. To LAX
(only 35 miles!).

I guess the one unscheduled landing and take off did not count! So maybe
if you don't get out of the aircraft at a stop that does not count!
--
David CL Francis