With spring break fast approaching and many students booking flights to locations far warmer than Boston, the Daily looks at all things airplane-related.
78% Americans who approve of the soon-to-be-imposed federal airline dictate that makes bringing matches or cigarette lighters onto planes illegal
9% Americans who describe themselves as "frequent flyers"
44% Americans who describe themselves as "occasional flyers"
47% Americans who say they "rarely" or "never" fly
68% Americans who think that passengers should be allowed to use their cell phones while flying (and that the current ban on doing so should be revised)
68% Americans who think that recently implemented airport security procedures "have been effective"
30 billion Amount of money the U.S. airline industry has lost since Sept. 11
4 million Amount of money Continental Airlines lost per day last month
19 Current number of JetBlue flights out of Boston's Logan Airport each day
100 Number of daily JetBlue flights out of Logan expected by 2008
25,000 Frequent flyer miles/points needed on most bank cards to earn "a round-trip coach flight within the 48 contiguous states"
50,000 Frequent flyer miles/points needed to earn "an economy round-trip to Europe"
3 Men whom a federal appeals court ruled last week can sue American Airlines, which the men say took back their job offers after learning they had HIV
1 Expedia.com's rank in the recently released "Keynote Customer Experience Rankings for the Airline Industry"
2 Orbitz.com's rank
3 Travelocity.com's rank
The statistics cited above come from Gallup, the Economic Times, the Mercury News, the Associated Press, destinationCRM.com, and the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
