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Originally Posted by rad707
"A record number of passengers travelled through Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in May.
Passenger traffic for the month increased to 781,855, up 6 percent compared with last year. The total number of people departing from ABIA totaled 408,004 for the month, an increase of 6.5 percent compared with May 2006."
At this rate, and using rough estimates, and assuming a steady increase in traffic, ABIA will hit 1,000,000 passengers a month by 2013.
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I got a chuckle out of this extrapolation. Reminds me of all the 1999 headlines indicating the DOW was heading for 22,000.
Pretty amazing the little town up north is running more passengers than its big sister metropolis to the south.