January passenger traffic up nearly 2% at Green

(Updated 8:49 a.m. to reflect corrected U.S. Airways numbers) WARWICK – January passenger traffic increased at T.F. Green Airport for the first time in three years, with passenger counts at nearly 2 percent more than January 2014’s figures.
The rise in travelers, to 243,894 passengers, was shared among several airlines, according to data released Friday by the R.I. Airport Corporation. That figure was 1.7 percent greater than January 2014’s figure of 239,812.
Major airlines posting increased passengers counts included: JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines. U.S. Airways posted a 12.6 percent drop in passengers compared with last January’s figures.
Southwest Airlines had among the largest increases, flying 114,033 passengers in January, an increase of 10 percent.
Delta Airlines posted a 0.2 percent percent decline in passengers to 26,078.
The figures represented the strongest for January passenger counts at the airport since January 2012, when the airport’s airlines had 257,480 passengers. That month represented a less than 1 percent increase from the prior January.
Cargo totals declined in January, to 1.9 million pounds from 2.1 million pounds the previous year.

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