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Article: British Airways suffers 9 percent drop in passenger traffic
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- September 4, 2002
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Dateline: LONDON
British Airways carried 9.2 percent fewer passengers in August compared
with the same month last year, the airline announced Wednesday.
BA's flights to Africa and the Middle East suffered the steepest decline,
with passenger loads falling by 17.5 percent. The number of passengers
flying to North and South America fell by a comparatively modest 6.9
percent, despite the plunge in trans-Atlantic traffic in the months