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    Piedmont Triad Airport Traffic Drops By 4 Percent

    Jan. 19, 2006
    December continued a seven-month decline in passenger flights from the airport, with 18,231 fewer travellers compared to the same month last year.

    Source High Point Enterprise (North Carolina)

    HIGH POINT -- Piedmont Triad International Airport ended the year with a 4 percent drop in passenger traffic for 2005, a drop of 54,728 flyers.

    December continued a seven-month decline in passenger flights from the airport, with 18,231 fewer travellers compared to the same month last year, according to data released Tuesday by the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority.

     The biggest percentage drop in passengers came from Independence Air, which boarded 5,648 fewer passengers in December 2005 from PTIA compared to 2004. Bankrupt discount carrier Independence Air pulled operations from the airport this month after officials announced it would go out of business. Delta Air Lines recorded the biggest total passenger drop, with 10,436 fewer passenger from the airport in December compared to the same month one year ago. Year-to-date, the airline was down 40,800 passengers or about seven percent.

    At their regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, the board of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority Also at the meeting: Gloria Whisenhunt, chairwoman of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners, was named to the airport authority board. She will replace the late Stanley Frank who died on January 2. Board members announced that the airport authority will hold an opening ceremony in early February for the newly completed Comair hangar.

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