Smaller Delta Planes Reduce Palm Beach Int'l Traffic

Passenger traffic at Palm Beach International Airport fell 9.2 percent in September to 373,966 total passengers. The decline contributed to a 3.4 percent drop in airline traffic over the 12-month period ended September 2006.

Airport officials said the decline came mainly because the airport's largest carrier, Delta Air Lines, is flying smaller planes to the airport than a year ago.

Delta carried 26.5 percent of the passengers in September, followed by US Airways (16.6 percent), JetBlue Airways (14.9 percent), Southwest Airlines (14.5 percent) and Continental Airlines (13.8 percent).

American Airlines, which carried nearly 6 percent of traffic at Palm Beach International over the past 12 months, got just 2 percent of the traffic in September.

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