{"id":98881102,"date":"2011-05-16T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/summer-forecast-calls-for-record-number-of-international-travelers-on-us-carriers\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T11:43:40","slug":"summer-forecast-calls-for-record-number-of-international-travelers-on-us-carriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/summer-forecast-calls-for-record-number-of-international-travelers-on-us-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Forecast Calls for Record Number of International Travelers on US Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US airlines are expecting to carry a record number of international travelers between June and August this year, topping last summer\u2019s record of 25.8 million international passengers, according the Air Transport Association.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The association, which represents major US carriers like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/american-airlines-aa\">American Airlines<\/a> and Delta, says US carriers will transport 26.3 international passengers, a 1.5 percent rise from 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The optimistic forecast comes despite as relatively high unemployment rate and uncertainty surrounding fuel prices heading into peak summer travel season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The association\u2019s chief economist, John Heimlich, noted that both business and leisure travel levels have remained high despite lingering effects of the global recession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-05-16\/u-s-airlines-set-for-record-number-of-international-travelers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US airlines are expecting to carry a record number of international travelers between June and August this year, topping last summer\u2019s record of 25.8 million international passengers, according the Air Transport Association. &nbsp; The association, which represents major US carriers like American Airlines and Delta, says US carriers will transport 26.3 international passengers, a 1.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98910162,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881102\/revisions\/98910162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}