Introduction

As the holiday travel season moves into top gear, most passengers will be unaware of the fact that the heavily-booked flight that they are traveling on will most likely not be making any money for the airline that is operating it. As the fuel prices get higher, airlines are suffering either by adding to the price of airfare or sacrificing some of their profits by paying more for fuel to keep the cost of air travel attractive. But when the prices get too high for fuel the airfare will be going up with it, and less people will be flying because of the eventual affordability of air travel. Then we will be searching for the new energy resource to power flight. Will hydrogen fuel cells do the trick? But would not a hydrogen powered plane with fifty-thousand pounds of hydrogen turn into a flying hydrogen bomb? What about the environmental effect of civil aircraft? Is airline travel a major contributing factor to global warming?
Aircraft manufacturers are......

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Title: The Future Of Air Travel
Approximate Word Count: 2691
Approximate Pages: 11 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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