Weather delays brought passenger volume down at the Golden Triangle Regional Airport in May, but the airport is still about 6 percent ahead of where it was last year.
“The majority of the reason was weather cancellations,” Mike Hainsey explained on Friday, after a meeting of the airport board. Hainsey, executive director for GTRA, said May traffic was about 2 percent down from May of 2010.
Hainsey also offered a reminder that, in September, Delta no longer would offer a flight to Memphis from GTRA. But he sees the change as a good thing, since the Memphis airport is facing a series of cuts in connections.
“Even if our folks get up there, there wouldn”t be as many flights to connect to,” he said.
Last month, the local airport”s flights had an average capacity of about 76 percent, with its midday flight averaging about 96-percent capacity.
Flights leave GTRA at 6:45 a.m., 11 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
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