Air route at center of Port Authority probe was one of nation's loneliest

An airline route under federal investigation as a possible perk for the former chairman of the Port Authority featured planes that were, on average, among the emptiest nationwide, with many flights so sparsely occupied that passengers could have entire rows to themselves. The United Airlines flight in question, a non-stop between Newark and Columbia, S.C., ranked in the bottom 3 percent of all commercial passenger routes nationwide based on the share of seats filled.

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