An official with a Junction City cab company also testified that her records showed a taxi was dispatched to a shopping plaza near the Dreamland Motel to carry a passenger to the McDonald's.
"US Airway (currently) loses money on that short segment, but if they can carry that passenger to another major hub or fly them internationally, they capture that incremental revenue, " says Vaughn Cordle, an airline analyst and co-founder of Ionosphere Capital.
Advocates credit stricter requirements for teenage drivers in place since 2009, including a law allowing drivers under the age of 21 to carry only one passenger.
By urging airlines to limit carry-on items to one per passenger, and by actually enforcing carry-on size and weight restrictions.
They say aircraft emit more of the main greenhouse gas than cars for each passenger they carry.
Earlier, screeners with the Transportation Security Administration noticed something suspicious in a passenger's carry-on luggage, said airport spokesman Michael Conway.
Even in low-lying Iraq, British forces found that their Lynx helicopters, designed to carry a dozen soldiers, could manage one passenger at best during the summer heat.
Because of the resulting gridlock, city officials are ordering that all passenger vehicles entering Manhattan below 62nd Street carry more than one person.
For example, the average weight for a passenger traveling in the summer (including carry-on luggage) went from 180 pounds in 1995 to 190 pounds in 2003.
The accident prompted the FAA to increase the estimated weight per passenger by 10 pounds, including 20 pounds of carry-on luggage.
Passenger numbers have risen by 40%, and trains now carry more people than they have in 50 years.
The Franco-Dutch carrier has so far ordered 12 regular A380s, with a passenger capacity of 555, but a stretched version under consideration by Airbus would carry 656 people.
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