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Ontario International Airport recorded a slight year-over-year increase in its passenger count in February, according to a recent report.
The airport handled 450,093 air travelers during the second month of the year, a 3.6 percent increase compared with February 2024, the Ontario International Airport Authority reported recently.
That increase was “slight,” but still impressive, because February 2024 was a leap year, with one extra day attached to it, the authority noted.
Domestic passengers totaled 414,286, a 0.2 percent increase, while international volume fell to 35,807, a 1.8 percent decline. Passenger traffic was essentially unchanged – 0.6 percent – during the first two months of this year compared with the same period in 2025.
Ontario International’s busiest airlines in the last month, and their passenger share, were:
- Southwest Airlines (37.5 percent)
- American Airlines (16.1 percent)
- Frontier Airlines (10.7 percent)
- Delta Air Lines (9.1 percent)
- United Airlines (8.6 percent)
Air cargo increased by 6.8 percent in February, mostly because of a 276 percent increase in mail shipments, while freight dropped 6.1 percent, according to the authority.
