Denver International Airport Reports March 2009 Traffic

Denver International Airport recorded 4,303,736 passengers in March 2009, a drop of 6.4% from the 4,597,347 travelers who used the facility in the same month last year.

Officials said the threat of a heavy spring snowstorm caused DIA’s airlines to cancel several hundred flights on March 26/27, accounting for as much as 3% of the monthly decline.

The March decrease compared with an 8.2% dip in passengers in February.

March’s total brought DIA’s year-to-date passenger count to 11,495,033. That was 5.7% fewer than the 12,192,537 passengers recorded at the airport through the first three months of 2008.

The number of flight operations at DIA continued to be impacted in March by the airlines’ capacity reductions and the weather. Operations in March totaled 52,467, down 3.5% from the same month last year. DIA’s operations total for the first quarter of the year also was down 3.5% from the first three months of 2008.

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