What is the breakdown between business and leisure travel?
Since we do not survey every passenger as to the purpose of his/her trips, we cannot measure this empirically. However, thanks to annual surveys commissioned by the Travel Industry Association (TIA), we can provide estimates for the domestic air travel market. According to its Domestic Travel Market Report (2007 Edition), 60 percent of the 156.8 million domestic person-trips by airplane in 2006 were taken primarily for leisure purposes, versus 40 percent for business/convention travel. Combined business/leisure constituted 12 percent of trips. [Note: Domestically, business passengers demand greater frequency and typically fly shorter distances than leisure passengers.
