International passenger travel generates much revenue for
transportation carriers, hotels, restaurants, and other travel-
related businesses. Despite the terrorist attacks, international
travel can be expected to place increased demands on the
nation's transportation network and pose new challenges for the
transportation sector. In particular, the key gateways- airports
and land border crossing- that primarily service these travel
flows will continue to be affected. Passengers boarded on the
top three international routes, both overseas and in the
Americas, are highly seasonal, with more people traveling in
July and August. International routes include only non-stop
segments between an airport in the U.S. and an airport outside
the U.S. Since September 2001, the number of passengers has
decreased dramatically, not following the usual seasonal
pattern. |Passengers Transported on the Americas
Routes||May-01||May-02| |Percent change from same month previous
year||2.04||-19.40| |Percent change from same month prev