Frustration among air travelers" caused them to avoid an estimated 41 million trips over the past 12 months at a cost of more than $26.5 billion to the U.S. economy

"," according a Travel Industry Association survey of 1,003 travelers conducted this month. Those 41 million avoided trips included 12 million business trips. Among the 212 surveyed travelers who had taken at least five trips in the past 12 months, 41 percent said they avoided at least one air trip, with the mean number of trips avoided in the past 12 months at 2.6. The economic impact includes $9.4 billion in airlines losses, $5.6 billion in hotel losses, $3.1 billion in restaurant losses and $4.2 billion in lost federal, state and local tax revenue.