Top 5 airlines by number of international passengers: United, American, Delta, US Airways, Jet Blue.
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Another 5, 500 international passengers a day will have to find seats on other carriers.
Cross-border rail in Europe will be fully liberalized to include domestic as well as international passengers in 2019.
Emirates Airline, which is owned by the Dubai government, now is the world's largest carrier as measured by international passengers.
This is set to affect 48, 000 passengers, including almost 4, 000 international passengers.
Mr. Secretary, as far as international carriers are concerned, are you in touch with international carriers, if international passengers are going to be affected from this?
The warning from Heathrow, which handles more international passengers than any other airport, came after immigration staff voted to join the strike by public sector workers.
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Some arriving international passengers see it as a sign of status when an attendant is waiting to greet and guide, even if it's a wheelchair attendant.
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Domestic and international routes combined, Delta carried the most passengers for the third consecutive year, while Southwest carried the most domestic passengers, and the largest number of international passengers flew United.
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International transfer passengers who never leave the airport are useful to the airline industry, but they are of little wider economic value.
The TSA security directive at issue outlined procedures to increase security, including requiring airlines to conduct physical searches of passengers during certain international flights and prohibiting passengers from keeping pillows and blankets on their laps.
Kansas City International Airport advised passengers to check their flight status before heading to the airport.
Orlando Sanford International Airport saw close to 1.6 million passengers in 2011, compared with more than 35 million passengers at neighboring Orlando International Airport.
These kinds of features are important to airlines competing for top-paying, first-class passengers on international routes.
The rule prohibited passengers on international U.S.-bound flights from leaving their seats during the last hour of a flight, the sources said.
Operators of Aberdeen International Airport said the drop in numbers in the helicopter sector last month was offset by growth in domestic and international fixed-wing passengers.
The Transportation Security Administration invoked a "one hour rule" after the thwarted attack, which prohibited passengers on international U.S.-bound flights from leaving their seats during the last hour of a flight, sources said.
Smaller ships (with fewer than 100 passengers) allow much more time for shore landings, since international regulations forbid more than 100 passengers from going ashore at a time.
In February, the most recent month reported, the number of passengers in premium seats on international routes was just 1.2% higher than a year ago, while economy passengers were up 3.7%, the association said.
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According to the International Air Transport Association, this is because upper-class passengers, although a small minority among international air travelers, account for almost a third of airline revenues.
Such iris identification technology is usually seen in international airports to allow registered passengers to fast-track through passport checks and immigration.
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To tackle some of these questions, the World Health Organisation is trying to get an international study with thousands of passengers off the ground.
The chaos at Heathrow has had a knock-on effect in other international hubs, where stranded passengers began to accept the possibility of not being with their loved ones over the Christmas period.
"To date, 95% of passengers from Bristol International Airport have departed with minimal delays this morning and only five flights have been cancelled from the Airport, " said Andrew Skipp, Bristol International's managing director.
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Medical screening for the swine flu virus has been introduced at many airports around the world for passengers arriving on international flights but there are concerns that many people may not be aware they are infected.
And as NPR's Tovia Smith reports, that's helping passengers move through Logan International Airport in Boston.
Deborah Harris from the International Airport said most of its passengers were returning home for Christmas to spend the festive period with family and friends.
In the first incident, the battery fire occurred in a Japan Airlines 787 that had already landed at Boston's Logan International Airport and was empty of passengers.
In 2011, Belfast International carried more than four million passengers.
It claims that these international allies are helping it manage new computerised seat-pricing techniques, as well as funnelling connecting passengers on to both its domestic and its international routes.
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