Fuel Woes Shifting U.S. Traffic To Longer Flights

Reeling from ballooning fuel costs, U.S. airlines are increasingly running longer flights with bigger airplanes and cutting short hauls, traffic data from the U.S. Transportation Dept. suggest. U.S. airlines together carried some 48.7 million passengers on their flights in February 2008, up 1.9%...

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