Fwd: Passenger Traffic Up Almost 12% - Dayton International Airport

--- Colleen Turner <colleenturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:43:03 -0800 (PST)
> From: Colleen Turner <colleenturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Passenger Traffic Up Almost 12% - Dayton
> International Airport
> To: airport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Passenger Traffic Up Almost 12%
> Dayton Daily News, OH
> 
> Sunday, January 11, 2004
> 
> DAYTON -- The birthplace of aviation is well down
> the
> list of cities with the busiest airports, but Dayton
> International Airport appears to have enjoyed a
> hefty
> increase in passenger traffic during the centennial
> year of powered flight.
>  
> Preliminary year-to-date figures for December report
> 1,287,141 passengers boarded planes at the airport,
> an
> 11.9 percent increase over 2002. Delta Airlines was
> by
> far the busiest carrier with 408,410 boardings — an
> 18.7 percent increase — including its regional
> carriers Comair and Atlantic Coast.
>  
> US Airways followed with 163,329 boardings — a 17.9
> percent decrease — and American Airlines was third
> with 179,032, a 5.2 percent increase, according to
> the
> figures. Airport officials emphasized the numbers
> aren't final.
>  
> Dayton's passenger traffic is just a fraction of its
> closest rival, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
> International. It reported nearly 9.48 million
> passenger boarded planes from January through
> November.
>  
> Cincinnati is a Delta hub airport and offers nonstop
> overseas flights, but Dayton is drawing passengers
> with low fares, spokeswoman Sharon Sears said.
>  
> Nationally, the Federal Aviation Administration
> ranked
> Dayton 82nd among 549 commercial U.S. airports in
> 2002, the latest year for which statistics are
> available.
>  
> The FAA's 2002 statistics ranked Atlanta's
> Hartsfield
> airport at the top with 37.7 million boardings,
> followed by Chicago O'Hare with 31.7 million and Los
> Angeles International with 26.9 million.
>  
> Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International led Ohio
> airports in 2002 with 10.3 million boardings,
> followed
> by Cleveland-Hopkins with 5.1 million and Port
> Columbus with nearly 3.3 million. They ranked 23, 38
> and 47 nationally.
>  
> Airports generally showed less traffic in 2002, a
> year
> affected by a soft economy and terrorism worries.
> Cincinnati reported a whopping 20.14 percent
> increase
> over 2001, but that year's numbers were affected by
> a
> Comair pilot's strike that temporarily grounded
> Cincinnati's biggest regional airline. The FAA says
> 11.2 million passengers boarded planes in Cincinnati
> in 2000.
>  
> Cleveland's traffic was down 2.1 percent in 2002,
> and
> Columbus was down a hair at .38 percent.
>  
> But Dayton had a 6.9 percent increase over 2001,
> according to the FAA, which boosted its rank a notch
> from 83.
> 
> 

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