LAX Passenger Traffic Continues Climb in November

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Passenger traffic at Los Angeles International Airport continued its steady climb in November, increasing 9 percent from the year earlier.


The greatest gains at LAX came from domestic travel, which rose 10 percent to 3.5 million passengers for the month, according to data released by Los Angeles World Airports. International passenger traffic increased 6.4 percent in November to nearly 1.3 million passengers.


For the first 11 months of 2004, passenger volume was 55.6 million, 11 percent higher than the same period in 2003. Over all domestic traffic rose 10.2 percent in the period to nearly 40.6 million passengers, while and international travel was up 13.3 percent to 15 million passengers.


“That’s very solid double-digit growth,” said Michael Collins, executive vice president of LA Inc, the convention and visitors bureau. “It indicates broad behavioral changes.”


After experiencing a decline in the wake of the SARS outbreak in Asia, the number of Japanese travelers in 2004 was projected to have eclipsed visitors from the United Kingdom for the first time in two years, Collins said.


Further signaling a comeback in international travel, the number of weekly non-stop international flights to and from LAX in December rose to 1,533, a 20 percent increased compared with December 2003, said Collins.


LAX was expected to end the year with 61 million passengers, the highest volume since 2001, when the airport had 61.6 million passengers.

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