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Fewer flights are departing Salt Lake City International Airport. Many of the big airlines also have cut the number of available seats by double digits. That means passengers are getting packed into fewer planes.
Delta Air Lines, which has a hub in Salt Lake, is the major player. Its departures are down 14 percent. Seats are down 13 percent.
But numbers are down across the board. Continental has cut departures by 40 percent. U.S. Airways' departures are off by nearly one-third, with seats down 21 percent.
So, if flights feel cramped, they probably are. The airport commissioned a consulting group to compile the numbers. A spokesperson says Salt Lake is about in the middle of the pack for hub airports. Fourteen of them saw more cuts, while 11 saw fewer.
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