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mmm=mmMWMEM <br /> For purposes of estimating the importance of transient business <br /> trips, the general aviation itinerant operations were examined. The sur- <br /> vey of pilots found that 26 percent of itinerant operations during the <br /> survey periods required the services of: an FBO._ Also, 97.8 percent of <br /> those interviewed were on business trips. Thus, an estimated 18,000 <br /> business trips were made at PDK in 1979. Further, the survey found that <br /> 56.2 percent of those operations involving a business trip were transient <br /> -- that is, were not based at PDK. Therefore, there were 10,100 transient <br /> business trips using PDK in 1979. This estimate, of course, substantially <br /> underestimates the total importance of PDK since it refers only to transient <br /> business use. A large number of the approximately 448 based aircraft are <br /> used by local business pilots to meet their travel requirements. <br /> Each transient business trip included 2.53 passengers plus the pilot <br /> which resulted in approximately 35,700 transient business visitors through <br /> PDK in ./9-79, according to the pilot survey. Of the transient business <br /> Visitors, 23.9 percent, or 8,500 persons, required overnight accommodations, <br /> with the remainder of 27,200 being one-day visitors. The overnight busi- <br /> ness visitors stayed an average of 1.5 days, resulting in 12,750 room-nights <br /> of local hotel/motel -sales. Typical expenditures associated with transient <br /> business trips included: $50/night for hotel or motel rooms; 535/day for <br /> meals and incidentals; and $30/day for ground transportation. <br /> The following table presents the estimated expenditures of transient <br /> business visitors at PDK in 1979. <br /> -17- <br /> mAtiralE14.8ttElt.otameE its$0claktts <br />