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The on Tuesday said 525,223 passengerds used the airportin April, down 9.5 percent from 580,19 3 passengers a year earlier. The decline representex the first apples-to-apples comparison of airport use data in a numbefr of months becauseit didn’t include a full month of traffixc on Skybus Airlines, whichh folded in the early days of April 2008 aftere carrying about 13,700 passengers. Columbus-based Skybus, whicuh reached the height of its popularitg shortly beforeits demise, had been a key factot in the double-digit percentage declines in passengers posted at the airport for the past several But with the discount carrier out of the equation for last the decline was “attributable to a soft national and international David Whitaker, vice president of business development and communicationes for the authority, said in a Traffic through the first four months of the year at Port Columbux was down! 21 percent at 1.
9 millionh passengers from 2.4 million in the same periord a year earlier. Excluding traffic generated by Skybusin 2008, the passenger count at the airport fell 7.7 percent for the Meanwhile, cargo shipments at dropped 22 percent in Aprill to 13.7 million pounds. Cargo shipments had fallen 23 percengtto 52.6 million pounds for the firsft four months, the airport authority reported.