Article: Steaming Eurostar hails age of the train ; TRANSPORT

Article: Passenger surge puts airport in top 120 category.
The Birmingham Post (England);  June 5, 2000 ;     375 words ......Birmingham was 120th with 7.01 million passengers - 4.6 per cent up on 1998. 'That is...normally have come to Birmingham, including passengers from the likes of Milton Keynes. Tour...been increasingly persuading long haul passengers to leave from Birmingham and go via...

Article: Passengers quickly subdue threat; Gang-tackled: 'Half the plane got up' after man runs to cockpit
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 10, 2001 ;     300 words ......passenger action such as the surge that gang-tackled a man who...security at the gate breaks down, passengers are the last defense, said...it might be dangerous for passengers to get involved unless flight...trained to oversee melees, the passengers on American Flight 1238 from...

Article: Airlines hit by 22 per cent surge in passenger complaints
The Scotsman;  July 25, 2007 ;     700 words ......type of complaints has changed little, indicating "passengers were still having cause to complain about generally...rise in complaints, and said confusion reigned among passengers as to what compensation they could claim. "Passengers should be protected but airlines are commercial companies...day it is ...

Article: Passengers Well Taken Care of During Holiday Peak Season (1)
Xinhua News Agency;  January 28, 2002 ;     239 words ......prepared for the passenger surge before and after the Chinese...across China took morecare of passengers on Monday, the first day of...spring holiday peak season. Passengers traveling from Lanzhou, capital...served approximately 20,000 passengers on Monday. "I never expected...

Article: Fraport Continues to Boom in July: For the First Time More Than 5 Million Passengers in One Month.
PR Newswire Europe;  August 11, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Figures Increase Significantly - New Records for Passengers, Airfreight and Aircraft Movements in a Single Month...in the history of the airport more than 5 million passengers were welcomed at Frankfurt Airport. 5,002,618 passengers passed through this hub of international air traffic...Frankfurt ...

Article: Key Airport Expects Surge of Passengers During Peak Holiday Season
Xinhua News Agency;  January 27, 2002 ;     224 words ...Over 40,000 passengers are expected at the Baiyun International...Airport had already served over 40,000 passengers on Sunday, with over 390 flights taking...15channels for security checks to minimize passengers' waiting time. Passengers will be...

Article: Prague airport to process 30 % more passengers in 2004.
Czech Business News;  November 10, 2004 ;     185 words ...Prague airport to process 30 % more passengers in 2004 Prague. November 10. INTERFAX...airport could clear up to 9.8 mln passengers for all of 2004, an increase of 30...rescheduled flights to accommodate the surge in passengers. In October, traditionally the last...tourist season, Ruzyne cleared ...

Article: Ryanair passenger numbers show dramatic surge.(Business)
The Birmingham Post (England);  August 6, 2002 ;     180 words ......Ryanair saw a 41 per cent surge in passenger numbers last...carried a total of 1,456,771 passengers. Over the 12 months to...it carried 12,492,543 passengers. The company's July load factor - the number of passengers as a proportion of the...

Article: Railway on track to beat record The seven-mile South Devon Railway has reported a surge in visitors.
Herald Express (Torquay UK);  August 30, 2007 ;     227 words ......Devon Railway has reported a surge in visitors. The rail tourist attraction says almost 60,000 passengers were carried to the end of...last year's total of 92,415 passengers. As one of Britain's oldest...chalked up more than one million passengers since it took over the line...

Article: O'Hare drop-off sends state air travel figure down 1% Downstate airports show improvement as passengers returning to planes
Chicago Sun-Times;  February 17, 2003 ;     682 words ......in Illinois last year, as a surge in Downstate takeoffs partially...statewide decline of about 360,000 passengers. Worries about terrorism generally...carried about 80,000 more passengers in 2002, gains that were erased...percent of the Peoria airport's passengers are business travelers, Balraj...

Article: Easter passenger surge on CalMac ferries
The Scotsman;  May 7, 2003 ;     514 words ......everywhere." Mr Sinclair said 17,500 passengers travelled between Ardrossan and Brodick...ferries, which has a capacity of 1,000 passengers, sailed full on Easter Saturday, with...increased traffic in the year to March, with passengers up by nearly 1 per cent. The previous...

Article: EasyJet nets 21 per cent surge in passengers
Evening News - Scotland;  July 6, 2001 ;     197 words ......airline, said it carried 21 per cent more passengers in June than the same month a year ago...website. The airline carried 632,908 passengers last month compared with 521,227 in...30, it carried more than 6.7 million passengers. It did not give comparable previous...

Article: Omaha, Neb., Airport Sees Surge of Passengers in December.
Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  January 13, 2003 ;     271 words ......Henry J. Cordes Jan. 13--A surge of passenger traffic made...Eppley carried 3.61 million passengers, about 1 percent below 2001...ever since. The 3.65 million passengers in 2001 were less than the...December. The nearly 316,000 passengers during the month were almost...

Article: Taking off: Aberdeen airport leads surge in passenger numbers
The Scotsman;  November 9, 2006 ;     133 words ......Scotland's aviation growth last month, with passengers soaring by 14 per cent to almost 300...per cent in October to nearly 781,000 passengers, and 8.6 million annually. Glasgow's...Scotland's busiest airport with 882,000 passengers last month and 8.8 million year-on-year...