YXS Passenger Numbers Hitting New Heights
Saturday, March 17, 2012 @ 3:54 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The Prince George Airport is seeing an impressive increase in passenger numbers.
Traffic numbers for January were up 5% over the same month last year, and February’s figures were up 11.1% over February 2011.
President and CEO of The Prince George Airport Authority, John Gibson, attributes the significant increase in traffic to the boom currently taking place in Northern BC. He says “When Premier Christy Clark was in town for the Natural Resource Forum earlier this year; she mentioned we were on the cusp of a northern renaissance as billions of dollars were being invested in Northern BC in the coming years.” Gibson says “we are starting to see the increase in activity and we are expecting passenger numbers to continue to grow this coming year.”
For the first two months of 2012, there were 68,326 passengers who used the P.G. Airport, up from 63,205 for the same period in 2011.
If the pace continues, the Airport will surpass the 400,000 passenger mark again this year. 2011 closed with 402 thousand passengers using the airport.
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from the YXS web site: “In 2008, YXS saw 417,484 passengers go through our doors. This represented the highest passenger total in the history of the Airport.”
It is great that after the economic downturn we may soon be close to where we were or even surpass it. :-)
Economic boom in Northern BC and over 8% unemployment in PG hardly go hand in hand.
I guess if you tell a story enough times eventually someone will begin believing it.
Roads crumbling, infrastructure disaster, population decrease, closed sawmills, quite the boom town.
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