Depending on where you looked, there were glass half full or half-empty outlooks in the latest forecasts released in early spring. But nowhere was a full glass to be enjoyed. At its annual Aviation Forecast Conference in Washington in March, FAA forecast that US airlines' collective traffic would grow at an average annual rate of 3.2% over the next 20 years to reach 1.57 trillion RPMs by 2032, down 15.8% from the 3.8% average annual passenger traffic growth rate predicted by the agency last year.
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