Airline Recovery Drives FAA Forecast
Underscoring the recovery U.S. airlines have made over the past year, the annual 20-year aerospace forecast the FAA released Feb. 15 in Washington predicts more than 1 billion passengers will board U.S. airlines in fiscal 2021.
The threshold is symbolic, but a guidepost for the growth of the industry. In the forecast it released in early 2009, the FAA also predicted the airlines would reach 1 billion ...