T.F. Green Airport reports March passenger decline

MARCH PASSENGER traffic decreased at T.F. Green Airport nearly 3 percent year over year. / COURTESY R.I. AIRPORT CORP.
MARCH PASSENGER traffic decreased at T.F. Green Airport nearly 3 percent year over year. / COURTESY R.I. AIRPORT CORP.

WARWICK – Passenger traffic declined nearly 3 percent year over year in March at T.F. Green Airport, the R.I. Airport Corp. reported Friday.
This was the second consecutive month of passenger declines, following an uptick in passengers in January.
There were 305,434 total passengers in March, a drop of 2.97 percent from March 2014’s 314,784, the airport reported.
Passenger traffic also fell on a year-to-date basis. Through March, there were 768,578 total passengers, a drop of 2.3 percent from 786,966 during the same year-ago period.
Southwest Airlines held the largest market share at 50.9 percent, with 155,585 total passengers in March, followed by US Airways at 22.5 percent with 68,654 total passengers; Delta Airlines at 11.1 percent with 33,801 passengers; JetBlue Airways at 8.5 percent with 26,045 passengers; United Airlines at 6.7 percent with 20,339 passengers and charter flights, at 0.3 percent with 1,010 passengers.

Among the large carriers, JetBlue had the largest increase in passengers year over year at 11.6 percent. Delta also showed an increase in passengers year over year at 1.5 percent.
The other large carriers reported decreases, however, with United Airlines showing the largest year over year drop at 13.1 percent, followed by US Airways at 11.6 percent and Southwest, 0.19 percent.
Cargo also decreased in March by 7.3 percent, to 1.9 million lbs. from 2.1 million lbs. a year earlier.

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