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Monday, November 12, 2007

Mainlines’ Regional Costs in Double Digit Increase

Air Transport Association of America (ATA) said transport-related expenses – payments by mainline carriers to their regional partners to transport passengers and cargo on their behalf – rose 13.7 percent, when it reported its quarterly Airline Cost Index through the second quarter. Fuel rose 25.4 percent and labor jumped 23.6 percent. The ACI composite cost index rose to 185.7, up 5.6 percent from the second quarter of 2006, compared to a 2.4 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
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