Thursday, January 29, 2009

Airport Numbers Down Over Past Year

Spokane International Airport reported a sharp drop in business last month over December of 2007.

- 126,000 passenger boardings were recorded in December, about 22,000 fewer than a year earlier, the airport says. That’s a decrease of nearly 15%

- For the year, the airport handled 3,423,500 passenger boardings, a 1.4% decrease from 2007

- 4,639 tons of freight moved through the airport last month, down 7%

- More than 52,000 tons of freight moved through the airport in 2008, a decrease of about 5% from 2007

- At Felts Field, there were about 65,800 aviation operations in 2008, a 5.7% decrease from the prior year.
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