Region Airline Growth

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percent. American Eagle Airlines, Comair (Delta Connection) and Continental Express were ranked as the three largest regional carriers, in terms of passenger enplanements, during 1999. The top 50 regional airlines, as ranked by enplanements, transported 99.6 percent of the industry's passengers and flew 99.9 percent of the industry's revenue passenger miles.

Safety
Safety as a whole in the airline industry is leaps and bounds ahead of other forms of transportation. David Vinson who spoke as an FAA administrator said it best in August of 1996 when he commented, “You’d have to fly one flight a day for 27,000 years to be assured of being a fatal aviation statistic in the United States” (Human Factors pg. 32). However, airline statistics are difficult to breakdown. Dozens of different aircraft are grouped together with dozens of carriers who are then grouped with dozens of airports who are then grouped with dozens of countries. Other problems arise when you consider accident rates. If you rate accidents by total miles flown, long in...