Regional stretch

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Skimming through the regional airline traffic figures for the last 10 years reveals a telling picture. Every year since 1999 has delivered 5-21% RPK growth, but this was not the case in 2008. Last year, as the economic crisis began to bite, traffic among the Airline Business Top 100 regional airlines shrunk 1.7%.And this picture masks the speed and severity of the downturn, which only began to properly bite towards the end of the year, from the third quarter onward....

Regional stretch