"August posts ninth record month for passengers at Medford, Ore., airport"

Friday, September 24, 2004

August posts ninth record month for passengers at Medford, Ore., airport
The Medford (OR) Mail Tribune


The lines may be long and waiting periods longer, but travelers keep
flocking to the Medford airport in record numbers.

Jackson County Airport Authority reported 52,706 passengers flew in and out
of Medford in August, 9.4 percent more than the 48,163 that passed through
in August 2003. The previous high for August was 50,303 in 2001.

It was the ninth straight record month for the airport, which is on course
for breaking the half-million passengers mark for the first time in a
calendar year.

Ticketed passenger activity is up 10.2 percent in 2004 with 350,654
travelers flying on three regional airlines serving Medford. Through August
of 2003, there were 318,115 passengers.

The airport's longest sustained streak of monthly records is 20 months, set
between October 1999 and May 2001. The second-longest streak was 13 months,
from December 1996 through December 1997. After an off January, the airport
saw another 11 straight record months ending in December 1998.


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