<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by brucemcal:
"And customers continue to get their free flights. Eight percent of domestic airline passengers flew for free in the second quarter this year, compared to 5.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2001, and 4.9 percent in the first quarter 2001".</font>
The airline industry is a seasonal one. His comparing 2nd quarter statistics to 4th quarter and 1st quarter statistics is meaningless, totally apples-and-oranges. I'd be interested to know the year-on-year change.