Originally Posted by
mperrizo
Even if they had that many planes I would love to see the seating arrangment to move 20% of the nations passengers. "Trans States Airlines, that fly about 20 percent of the nation's air passengers".
Did they forget to move the decimal two places over?
No you just didn't quote the entire sentence.
And it's having a profound effect on the dozens of regional airlines, like Bridgeton-based Trans States Airlines, that fly about 20 percent of the nation's air passengers ...
Originally Posted by
cbire880
I'm betting the writer intended to say that regional airlines fly 20% of the nations passengers.
That's exactly what the writer did say... see above.