From the Austin Business Journal
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ABIA traffic takes off
Austin Business Journal - 4:15 PM CDT Friday, June 29, 2007
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.
Southwest Airlines [NYSE: LUV] ushered the largest number of passengers through the doors of ABIA, 270,068, up 3 percent compared with last year. ABIA officials also announced that Southwest will add a non-stop flight between Austin and Denver. Southwest will become the third airline to offer the direct flight, bringing the number of daily non-stop flights between the two cities to eight.
ABIA's air cargo activity, however, did not fair as well. Air cargo for May 2007 was down 4 percent compared to last year, totaling 18,536,603 lbs.