Source: Del Quentin Wilber, Washington Post ( Free Registration )

Passengers are likely to face higher fares, packed planes and a continuation of headache-causing flight delays this summer, according to outside analysts and a trade group that represents major air carriers.

The trade group, the Air Transport Association, presented a bleak summer travel forecast yesterday. The group’s president, Jim May, would not say whether he expected delays to be as bad as last summer but noted that the coming months “will be very challenging.”

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