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AUS on the rebound
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 by Tai Moses
A dispatch from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport informs us that airport execs are all smiles after a “busy summer travel season.” According to the numbers, “passenger traffic growth for August 2021 was up 209.5 percent compared to August 2020 with 1,298,070 passengers flying during the month.” That’s a lot of passengers getting on and off airplanes, or enplanements and deplanements, as airport officials like to say. If you need to know exactly which airlines are hosting all of those travelers, check out the dispatch.
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