The reasons for a global rethink into how airports should be owned and operated are three-fold:

• an airport is no longer an instrument of social and economic policy.

   

• as a result, the air transport industry is witnessing the evolution of the airport from a subsidized support system for the airline community, to a highly profitable enterprise in it's own right.

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The passenger-kilometres (pkm) traveled on intercity buses fluctuated wildly during the period 1970 to 1995. From 3.6 billion pkm in 1970, bus ridership rose to 4.4 billion pkm in 1980 before sinking to a low of 3.4 billion pkm in 1990. While the annual level of ridership has been fairly stable during the present decade, at slightly more than four billion pkm, it peaked at 4.8 billion pkm in 1995.

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