The platform was surrounded by a similar grill, no higher than the average passenger's shoulder.

"Our average passenger used to be an elderly Cuban visiting family in Miami," she said.

The safety board, using a Coast Guard standard, estimated the average passenger at 140 pounds.

To the average passenger, some of the changes might appear to have no practical significance.

For the average passenger, the changes mean that the travel experience will be closer to that on a no-frills airline.

The average passenger spent 3% less time at the airports but the numbers are 4m ahead at 44m in the half year to September.

"The average passenger or customer will not know any difference."

And all seemed as demoralized as your average passenger at the way they had been treated.

Estimates of how much the average passenger will spend on such amenities range upward to $75 a flight.

The average passenger would have to take a flight every day for thousands of years before he would be in a plane crash.