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AIR FARES AND PASSENGER VOLUME FOR THE TOP FIVE MAJOR SHORT ROUTES
Average and Low Air Fares: Most Heavily Travelled Routes of 750 Miles and Less (quarterly data, not seasonally adjusted)
NOTE: Blue portion of bar = lowest average fare for an airline meeting the criteria
in the text.
Red portion of bar = the difference between the average fare for all airlines, and the
lowest average fare airline.
Blue + red portions of bar = the average fare for the market.
Passenger air fares are a measure of the price of air travel between cities. Major
short routes consist of the top five routes of 750 miles and less by number of passengers
for the most recent quarter. Large markets consist of the top 1,000 passenger markets
at all distances, plus routes that have previously achieved this distinction. Low fares
are the lowest average fare for an airline serving at least 10 percent of passengers in
the market, or the airline with the lowest average fare, if there is only one airline with
at least a 10 percent share.
In the third quarter of 2000, there were 534 large-market routes of 750 miles or less.
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| 18.26 |
19.97 |
9.37 |
| 15.96 |
19.26 |
20.68 |
| 7,214 |
7,637 |
5.86 |
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| 45.25 |
46.22 |
2.13 |
| 41.70 |
40.28 |
-3.39 |
| 6,361 |
6,566 |
3.22 |
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| 35.49 |
35.63 |
0.41 |
| 33.53 |
32.39 |
-3.39 |
| 5,787 |
5,765 |
-0.38 |
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| 20.52 |
20.81 |
1.38 |
| 20.02 |
20.07 |
0.28 |
| 5,487 |
5,652 |
3.01 |
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| 16.22 |
17.14 |
5.67 |
| 16.22 |
16.89 |
4.16 |
| 5,448 |
5,324 |
-2.28 |
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in
the previous year to account for seasonality.
Average fares are based on the one-way
cost for all paying customers and exclude passengers that fly for free such as those using a frequent flyer program. City-pairs include all airports in each city.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation: Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International
Affairs, and http://ostpxweb.ost.dot.gov/aviation/.
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