'Over 533,000 people traveled through Port Columbus in January to beat the 2003 record by nearly 30,000 travelers,' said David Whitaker, Vice President of Business Development & Communications for the Airport Authority. 'The combination of 17 additional daily departures over January 2006 and the OSU bowl charters in January 2007 made for a spectacular month.'
The airport provides about 180 daily non-stop flights to 37 airports. Air carriers include Air Canada Jazz, American, Continental, Delta, JetBlue, Midwest Connect, Northwest, Southwest, United, US Airways/America West, USA3000 and the regional affiliates associated with many of these major airlines.
Meanwhile, over 16.7 million pounds of cargo moved through Rickenbacker International Airport in January. Rickenbacker is a multi-modal cargo airport that features an impressive network of freight forwarders and cargo airlines such as FedEx, UPS, Evergreen International, Kalitta and Atlas as well as a U.S. Foreign-Trade Zone and numerous industrial parks.