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with summer holidays around the corner, here is a globe-trotting fact for you. air travel worldwide is set to double to 7.8 billion passengers according to the international airport association. and it brings me to my question. what was the busiest international air route by number of flights over the past year? kuala lumpur to singapore, beijing to coukuala lumpur, new york to london or london to mumbai? stay tuned and we ll tell you the correct answer. this week s book is us versus them. ian bremer is clear-i d eyed ab the global capitalism. he intelligently sketches out the problem and possible paths forward. the answer to the gps challenge question is a. according to a report by
jon: breaking news this hour on that volcano in iceland that s been paralyzing air travel worldwide. hello, i m jon scott. jane and i m jane skinner. the british government plans to reopen some u.k. air space tomorrow morning. in the meantime, we re just learning that germany is giving lufthansa airlines the green light to fly about 15,000 passengers home. still look at these pictures, this huge ash cloud is leaving millions of people around the world stranded. cost to the aviation industry? more than $200 million every day. let s get to rick leventhal at jfk airport in new york. update us from there, if you will. reporter: well, jane, the british airways terminal is virtually empty. the airline says it s found hotel rooms for most of its stranded passengers and american airlines as well. here at terminal four, though, it s another story. there are hundreds of passengers in the back there on cots that were provided by the american