Wednesday, 27 June 2012 07:14

Busiest Month Ever For Akron-Canton Airport

Written by  Amani Abraham
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It's another record setting month for Akron-Canton Airport, making it the busiest month in history.

More than 158,000 customers traveled in and out of the airport in May, beating their old record by 3,000 which was set last year in July, according to Akron-Canton Airport officials. It's also the 14th consecutive month of record-breaking passenger traffic.

Compared to May of last year, the airport hosted nearly 12,000 more passengers in 2012; an eight percent increase.

So far this year, 705,335 travelers flew in and out of CAK, up 12 percent compared with the first five months in 2011.

Starting August 12, Southwest Airlines will begin two daily nonstop trips to Chicago Midway along with replacing AirTran’s nonstop flight to Denver.

Traffic is also up at each of the airlines stationed at the airport:

AirTran Airways - up 17 percent.

Frontier Airlines-  up 22 percent

US Airways - up 9 percent 

United - up 6 percent

Delta Air Lines - up slightly compared to last year
 

Last modified on Wednesday, 27 June 2012 08:35
Amani Abraham

Amani Abraham

Amani Abraham is the morning web editor and also tracks morning drive traffic for 1590 WAKR, 97.5 WONE and 94.9 WQMX during weekday mornings and is a reporter/anchor. She's no stranger to AkronNewsNow.com, having worked as an intern with Rubber City Radio Group as a producer for the Daily Vodcast and other video projects.. Amani is a 2011 graduate with a Communications degree from the University of Akron, where she excelled in her work on the student radio station WZIP-FM and Z-TV, the University's television program. You can reach Amani through the newsroom 330-864-6397 or by email aabraham@rcrg.net

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