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WARWICK – Passenger and cargo traffic at T.F. Green Airport was down again in June, according to figures released by the R.I. Airport Corporation.
In its monthly traffic report, the agency said 384,924 passengers passed through T.F. Green in June, down 8.4 percent from the same month last year, when the airport saw 420,324 passengers. The rate of decline was almost identical to May, when passenger traffic fell 8.5 percent year-over-year.
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Passenger traffic also fell on a monthly basis, an unusual occurrence in the summertime, with 7,826 fewer passengers passing through T.F. Green in June compared with May.
The number of passengers boarding planes at T.F. Green in June was down 7.9 percent year-over-year to 190,653, down from 207,077 a year earlier, the agency said. That was narrower than the 9.3 percent annual decline in passengers boarding at T.F. Green in May.
Southwest Airlines was by far the largest carrier by passenger volume in June, with 196,756 local passengers, or 51.1 percent of the total number of passengers last month. Southwest’s passenger volume at T.F. Green was down 8.8 percent compared with a year ago.
T.F. Green’s second-largest carrier by passenger volume, U.S. Airways, carried 85,487 passengers, or 22.2 percent of the total number last month. Unlike Southwest, which saw its market share at T.F. Green fall slightly from May to June, U.S. Airways’ share of passenger traffic increased last month.
Total cargo shipments through T.F. Green continued to trend far lower than last year, dropping to 1.7 million pounds in June, down 32.8 percent from a year earlier. The annualized rate of decline in cargo shipments was basically the same as in May.
Freight shipments, which made up three-fourths of T.F. Green’s total cargo traffic, fell 38.5 percent – more than the 35.3 percent drop in May but less than the 41.2 percent drop posted in April – to 1.26 million pounds.
One relative bright spot was in mail shipments, which saw a much smaller rate of decline in June, down 9.8 percent compared with a year earlier to 457,565 pounds. By contrast, mail shipments had fallen 23.3 percent in May and 20.3 percent in April.
The R.I. Airport Corporation (RIAC) is a quasi-public agency, based at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, that oversees Green and the state’s five general aviation airports. Additional information is available at PVDAirport.com.
