BWI sets passenger record for June
Increase of 8.9% over June 2009 gives airport 2nd-best month
Increase of 8.9% over June 2009 gives airport 2nd-best month
August 02, 2010By Michael Dresser, The Baltimore Sun - Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport set a record for June traffic this year as 2,085,293 commercial passengers passed through the airport that month, according to the Maryland Aviation Administration. That total represents an 8.9 percent increase over June 2009.
It was the second-busiest month ever at BWI, falling just short of the record set in August 2001 — the month before 9/11 sent the airline industry into a prolonged slump.
More than half of BWI's June passengers — 1,111,896 — flew on Southwest Airlines, which tallied a 14.9 percent increase over the previous year. Southwest is now making 182 daily departures from BWI, its highest level since it began operations there.
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