Airport traffic sinks 9.5% in April - Business First of Columbus:

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The on Tuesday said 525,223 passengers used the airport in down 9.5 percent from 580,193 passengers a year The decline represented the first apples-to-apples comparison of airporty use data in a number of months because it didn’ty include a full month of traffic on Skybusw Airlines, which folded in the early days of Apri 2008 after carrying about 13,700 Columbus-based Skybus, which reached the height of its popularituy shortly before its demise, had been a key factot in the double-digit percentage declines in passengers postec at the airport for the past several But with the discount carrier out of the equation for last the decline was “attributable to a soft national and internationa economy,” David Whitaker, vice president of business developmengt and communications for the authority, said in a release.
Trafficv through the first four months of the year at Port Columbua was down 21 percentat 1.9 million passengerzs from 2.4 million in the same period a year Excluding traffic generated by Skybuds in 2008, the passenger count at the airport fell 7.7 percent for the period. cargo shipments at dropped 22 perceng in Aprilto 13.7 million pounds. Cargo shipments had fallen 23 percentrto 52.6 million pounds for the first four the airport authority reported.