Traffic slides at International Airport

During July, nearly 503,000 passengers traveled through Southwest Florida International Airport, a decrease of 6.1 percent compared to July 2007. Year-to-date, passenger traffic is down 4.8 percent over the same period last year.

The traffic leader in July was Delta with 67,677 passengers traveling to and from Fort Myers. Rounding out the top five airlines were JetBlue (59,291), AirTran (58,647), Southwest (55,967), and US Airways (54,170).

Southwest Florida International Airport had 5,934 aircraft movements (takeoffs and landings), a slight decrease of 0.66 percent over July 2007. Page Field General Aviation Airport saw 5,560 movements, a 6.5 percent increase over July 2007. In addition, nearly 2.6 million pounds of air freight moved through both airports in July 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