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Traffic at Denver International Airport Dips in February

Photo courtesy of Denver International Airport

For the first time since June 2009, Denver International Airport saw traffic numbers drop in February.

DIA keeps track of monthly passenger traffic to plan for the future of the facility and make sure flight operations go as smoothly as possible, among other things.  Passenger numbers have been steadily climbing each month since 2009; 2010 was a record-setting passenger traffic year.  But this year traffic number declined in February.

“We saw a 1.4% decline from the number of travelers who came through DIA in February of 2010” says DIA Spokeswoman Jenny Schiavone, “it’s not a huge number and not completely unexpected because the months between the Christmas travel season and the spring break travel season are typically a little bit slower.”

Schiavone says despite February’s dip year to date traffic numbers remain strong, and the busiest time, the summer months, are fast approaching