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Travel Insurance: US carriers leading the way

Washington (D.C.), USA - Lufthansa 1st among the Europeans: 6th fleet, 5th for passenger traffic

American website "Travel Insurance" establishes a strict ranking of air carriers, made of easy to read numbers. The Americans are - obvious to say - at the top. In 2009 Delta is to be the largest airline in the world with 743 aircraft and 161 million passengers. In second place American Airlines, with 615 aircraft, and Southwest, with 547, which exchange the position for passengers, with 101 million...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1119410
Rome, Italy, 07/22/2010 17:48
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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