Airport traffic down in August

Nearly 449,000 passengers traveled through Southwest Florida International Airport in August, a decrease of 8 percent compared to August 2007. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is down 5 percent over the same period last year.

The traffic leader in August was Delta with 61,926 passengers traveling to and from Fort Myers. Rounding out the top five airlines were JetBlue (56,072), Air- Tran (52,338), US Airways (51,091) and Southwest (48,619).

Southwest Florida International Airport had 5,419 aircraft movements (takeoffs

and landings), a decrease of 9 percent over August 2007. Page Field General Aviation Airport saw 4,555 movements, a 21 percent decrease from August 2007. In addition, nearly 2.5 million pounds of air freight moved through both airports in August 2008.

Southwest Florida International Airport served more than 8 million passengers in 2007 and is one of the top 50 U.S. airports for passenger traffic. For more information, log onto www. flylcpa.com