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Appendix B <br />Glossary <br />• • ' ~~:~ <br />Airport catchment area (ACA) Average fare <br />The geographic area surrounding an airport from The average of the fares reported by the airlines <br />which that airport can reasonably expect to draw to the U.S. DOT. The average fare as reported <br />passenger traffic. The airport catchment area is does not include taxes or passenger facility <br />sometimes called the service area. charges and represents one-half of a round-trip <br /> ticket (one-way). <br />Airport codes <br />DEN Denver International Airport Deplanement <br /> Denver, CO A passenger that is departing or getting off a <br />EUG Eugene Airport commercial aircraft. <br /> Eugene, OR <br />LAS McCarran International Airport Destination airport <br /> Las Vegas, NV Any airport where the air traveler spends four <br />LAX Los Angeles International Airport hours or more. This is the Federal Aviation <br /> Los Angeles, CA Administration definition. <br />MFR Rouge Valley International Airport <br /> Medford, OR Direct flight <br /> A direct flight provides same-plane service <br />PDX Portland International Airport between two points, but stops at an intermediate <br /> Portland, OR <br />PHX Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport airport(s). <br /> Phoenix, AZ <br />SEA Seattle -Tacoma International Airport Diversion <br /> Passengers that do not use the local airport for <br /> Seattle, WA air travel, but instead use a competing airport to <br />SFO San Francisco International Airport <br /> originate the air portion of their trip. <br /> San Francisco, CA <br />SLC Salt Lake City International Airport <br /> Salt Lake City, UT Enplanement <br /> A passenger boarding a commercial aircraft. <br /> Excludes passengers making connections. <br />Airline codes <br />AA American Airlines <br />AS Alaska Airlines FAA <br />Acronym for the Federal Aviation Administration. <br />DL Delta Air Lines <br />HP America West Airlines <br />NW Northwest Airlines GDS <br /> Acronym for Global Distribution Systems. There <br />QX Horizon Air are four Global Distribution Systems in the <br />UA United Airlines United States, including Amadeus, Galileo <br />WN Southwest Airlines International (Apollo), Sabre, Inc., and <br /> Worldspan. <br />./r ~;ucFN~ <br />AA[iPO.CtT Page 34 <br />