The point being that passenger numbers are irrelevant unless they have wings and a transponder.
It is aircraft movements that matter and they have risen by only 100,000ish in 15 years (1995 - 2010 on the graph posted here).
100,000 is huge you say? Well it's not. And if we do this.......
100,000/365days/30sectors/3shiftsperday (guessing here) = 3 movements per sector per shift increase over 15 years. Now what has your salary done from 1995 to 2011???? Gotta love stats.
See what I mean. You made heaps of good points before but be careful what figures you are quoting.