While US Airways traffic continued to drop at Pittsburgh International Airport last year, other carriers saw passenger increases of more than one-third overall.
The airport authority had forecast the decline of US Airways traffic for most of the year, after it dropped Pittsburgh as a hub in 2004 and rearranged flights, Kent George, executive director of the airport, said in a prepared statement.
Still, US Airways remained the No. 1 airline operating at Pittsburgh, even though its passenger traffic dropped from 13.2 million passengers in 2004 to 10.4 million in 2005.
Where US Airways once flew the vast majority of flights from Pittsburgh, other airlines now account for more than 40 percent of the Pittsburgh traffic. As a result, competition is growing, airfares are dropping, and residents of the region have options "unheard of here five years ago," George said.
Airport officials said Delta Air Lines was second in passenger traffic, with 737,923 passengers in 2005, a 1.4 percent increase from the 727,396 passengers in 2004.
United Airlines, even while in bankruptcy, was third and showed a 40 percent growth in passengers at Pittsburgh, increasing from 475,572 in 2004 to 667,509 in 2005.
Southwest Airlines, which started service to Pittsburgh in May, ranked as No. 4, with 571,666 passengers.
Beaver County Times
The airport authority had forecast the decline of US Airways traffic for most of the year, after it dropped Pittsburgh as a hub in 2004 and rearranged flights, Kent George, executive director of the airport, said in a prepared statement.
Still, US Airways remained the No. 1 airline operating at Pittsburgh, even though its passenger traffic dropped from 13.2 million passengers in 2004 to 10.4 million in 2005.
Where US Airways once flew the vast majority of flights from Pittsburgh, other airlines now account for more than 40 percent of the Pittsburgh traffic. As a result, competition is growing, airfares are dropping, and residents of the region have options "unheard of here five years ago," George said.
Airport officials said Delta Air Lines was second in passenger traffic, with 737,923 passengers in 2005, a 1.4 percent increase from the 727,396 passengers in 2004.
United Airlines, even while in bankruptcy, was third and showed a 40 percent growth in passengers at Pittsburgh, increasing from 475,572 in 2004 to 667,509 in 2005.
Southwest Airlines, which started service to Pittsburgh in May, ranked as No. 4, with 571,666 passengers.
Beaver County Times
