AUS blasts off

By all accounts, 2022 was a rollicking, record-breaking year for Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. According to the airport’s year-end review, AUS “experienced an unprecedented growth of passenger volumes as demand for air travel rose far beyond the airport’s busiest passenger activity volumes seen in 2019, before disruptions caused by Covid-19.” The review goes on to say that passenger volume for December 2022 “was the highest December on record with 1,717,601 passengers flying during the month, up 7.63 percent compared to December 2021.” As for the busiest month of last year? That would be the merry month of May, “which welcomed 2,021,747 passengers in a single month and the total passenger count for 2022 was 21,089,289 passengers, up 55.40 percent from 2021, officially making 2022 the airport’s busiest year ever.”