WARWICK – Passenger traffic at T.F. Green Airport (PVD) rebounded last month, after dipping in January to its lowest level in four years, according to the latest data from the R.I. Airport Corporation. But freight and mail traffic continued to decline.
A total of 354,096 passengers passed through the airport in February, an increase of 2.5 percent from January’s revised 345,422 passengers (READ MORE) and 1.9 percent from the year-ago 347,352.
The number of passengers who boarded planes at T.F. Green in February was 180,582, RIAC said. That represented an increase of 2.1 percent from both the month-ago 176,863 and the year-ago 176,893 passengers.
Both figures, however, still lagged the airport’s 2007 monthly average of 418,278 total passengers and 209,155 emplaned passengers.
Southwest Airlines remained No. 1 at T.F. Green last month with 192,465 passengers and a 54.4-percent market share. US Airways was No. 2 with 77,136 passengers or 21.8 percent, followed by United Airlines with 22,530 passengers or 6.4 percent; Delta Airlines with 22,620 or 6.4 percent; Continental at 18,517 or 5.2 percent; Northwest Airlines with 13,767 passengers or 3.9 percent; American Eagle with 5,220 or 1.5 percent; charter planes with 1,156 passengers or 0.3 percent; and Air Canada with 685 or 0.2 percent of the airport’s February total.
Total cargo shipments through T.F. Green in February fell 29.8 percent compared with a year ago to 2.36 million pounds. Freight shipments fell 33.5 percent to 1.86 million pounds while mail shipments fell 11.8 percent to 508,101 pounds.
The airport’s new director, Kevin A. Dillon, hopes a runway extension will help boost passenger traffic at T.F. Green. “We’re trying to develop infrastructure that allows us to handle not only short- and medium-haul traffic, but long-haul traffic as well,” he recently told Providence Business News. (READ MORE)
The R.I. Airport Corporation (RIAC) is a quasi-public organization, based at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, that oversees Green and the state’s five general aviation airports. Additional information is available at www.pvdairport.com.
