Passenger traffic drops 1% in January at T.F. Green

PASSENGER TRAFFIC at T.F. Green Airport fell 1.2 percent over the year in January. / COURTESY OFFICE OF THE R.I. SECRETARY OF STATE
PASSENGER TRAFFIC at T.F. Green Airport fell 1.2 percent over the year in January. / COURTESY OFFICE OF THE R.I. SECRETARY OF STATE

WARWICK – The passenger count at T.F. Green Airport declined slightly in January compared with a year earlier, the R.I. Airport Corp. said Friday.

There were 250,380 passengers last month, a 1.2 percent decline compared with 253,488 in January 2016.

American Airlines had the greatest increase in passengers over the year at 15.5 percent, to 66,121 from 57,239. United Airlines has the greatest decrease during the same time frame at nearly 37 percent, to 11,333 from 17,978.

The rest of the major airlines all reported passenger decreases.

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Southwest Airlines, which holds the largest market share at 48.8 percent, had 121,885 passengers, a 0.61 percent decline over the year, while Delta Air Lines had 26,738 passengers, a 7 percent decrease; JetBlue Airways, 21,140 passengers, a 7.5 percent decrease; and TACV Cabo Verde Airlines, an 8.1 percent decline, to 1,811. TACV flies year-round to Cape Verde.

After Southwest, American has the next-largest market share at 26.4 percent, followed by Delta, 10.7 percent; JetBlue, 8.4 percent; United, 4.5 percent; and TACV, 0.72 percent.
Cargo increased 1.5 percent over the year in January, to 1,997,031 pounds from 1,968,301 pounds in January 2016.

This week, in a significant development for T.F. Green, the airport corporation announced that Norwegian Air, a European discount carrier, would begin offering service to Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland this summer.

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