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All Time Record: 222 Mn People Expected To Fly In The U.S. This Summer

We spotted this stat today:

"The 222 million people who are expected to get on airplanes in the United States this summer will be an all-time record, topping the 217 million who flew in the summer of 2007. That’s the last summer before the economy tanked in 2008. And that’s according to Airlines for America, the U.S. airlines’ Washington, D.C., trade group."

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The economy is back up officially, folks.

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