This is a student essay about the growth in air travel. Read the first paragraph below, and choose which sentence is most suitable as a paragraph leader. ........................... IATA, the trade association for the world’s airlines, estimates that revenues from air travel rose from $465 billion in 2006 to $705 billion in 2016. In addition the total number of passengers rose from 2.2 billion to 3.8 billion during the same period (IATA 2017). There are a number of different reasons for this rise, including low air fares and economic development, particularly in Asia, but there are several factors that may lead to a slowdown in this growth in air travel.
A.
In the last decade, air travel has become much more popular than other forms of transport.
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At the global level, the average cost of air travel had fallen significantly.
C.
At the global level, air travel has increased dramatically in the last 10 years.