The latest information from the Tallahassee International Airport shows that passenger traffic increased in June by 6.8% when compared to traffic one year ago. The number of passengers was up from 67,795 during last June to 72,424 this year.
The Passenger Traffic Report shows passenger counts increased for the two major carriers. American was up 24.0% and the Delta Group was up 1.1%. Silver Airways was down 47.3%.
The graph below shows the annualized number of passengers for the last 24-months. The annual rate of passengers at TIA in June was 837,626. This is 8.29% above the annualized rate reported during this month last year. The annualized number of passengers is calculated by summing the previous 12 months of traffic.
The annualized passenger traffic before the Great Recession was approximately 947,000 in 2007.
Because the damn economy is up. Which is really making the liberals angry. Love it.