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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike
News Brief from the Austin American Statesman
Airport traffic hits record in May
Austin-Bergstrom passenger traffic hits record
Passenger traffic at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport set a record in May.
Almost 836,700 people flew into or out of the airport, topping the previous record of 832,400 in July 2007.
Among major carriers, traffic was up 6 percent at Southwest Airlines, down 3.8 percent at American Airlines and down 10 percent at Continental Airlines.
The biggest percentage gain was at JetBlue Airways, which carried 39,913 passengers, up 74 percent from a year ago. The airline added several nonstops from Austin in recent months.
I've seen a couple of promos for KVUE's 10 PM newscast tonight and this is one of the stories they'll be covering. |
Great news for KAUS. Again this is due to Austin becoming a focus city for jetBlue getting some Florida traffic to connect out west via AUS. CO is cutting Cleveland (more due to CLE not AUS) and both CO and AA are using some smaller aircraft but frequencies are still good for both CO and AA at AUS.
Overall Good news for AUS in the current market downturn. As I said in some analysis of ABIA in some other threads, it is well poised for future growth.
The "Low cost" terminal is another story but I will say that for later.
Ciao,
AWACS