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Originally Posted by PhillyPDX
International traffic going the wrong direction at PDX.
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I'm not sure I agree with this.
In 2023, PDX ended the year with 753,084 international passengers; up 24.6% over 2022. The 2024 May year-to-date statistics show international passengers up 16.7% over the same period in 2023; at 297,801 international passengers year-to-date we're slightly up over the same period in 2019 where there were 286,244 international passengers. Of the foreign carriers at PDX (Air Canada, British Airways, Condor, Iceland Air, Jazz Air, Volaris and Westjet) all of their numbers are up year-to-date, and ended 2023 up on 2022.
The decrease in frequency with the Delta-to-KLM isn't
great, but it should be seen in the context of British Airways launching flights that are carrying about 75% of the number of passengers Delta had on the Amsterdam flight pre-pandemic.
It does kill any remaining hope of Delta (re)-starting flights to Asia from PDX, though at this point I wasn't too hopeful on that. I'm sure the Port of Portland is busy trying to recruit an Asian carrier to fly here.