Portland International Airport (PDX) News

[maccoinnich]

Originally Posted by downtownpdx

PDX will see Alaska Airlines' largest annual passenger increase - 35% - of any airport across its network this coming holiday weekend :

https://www.koin.com/news/portland/thanksgiving-weekend-pdx-major-increase-alaska-airlines/

Thanksgiving weekend at PDX to see major increase in Alaska Airlines passengers

Originally Posted by PhillyPDX

Kind of a weird stat for them to announce, because they don't say why. I'm not sure I've ever see a Thanksgiving travel stat that is more than just the fluff "busiest travel day of the weekend" type of stuff, which is across the board nationally. What is the reason PDX is "surging" this weekend more than other airports?

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

November statistics are out for PDX.

I decided to look back at this, and for the whole month of November (not just Thanksgiving weekend) Alaska mainline was up 19.7% year-on-year and Horizon 36.9%. Overall the airport was only up 5.3%, largely to due to declines and Southwest and Spirit (Delta was down a bit too, but not that much once you account for KLM taking over the Amsterdam flight).