Last Thanksgiving a record 2.2m Americans took a flight to spend the holiday with family and friends. This week even the most optimistic airlines were hoping for only 1.8m. Air traffic in October and November is down by about 25% on a year ago in the world's biggest aviation market, thanks to a combination of recession and the attacks on September 11th. International travel from America has been hit even harder: the number of Americans flying across the Atlantic is down by over 30%. Never mind that more people are killed on America's roads every three months than have died in the entire history of commercial aviation. The recent disasters continue to instil terror.
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