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Ontario International Airport accommodated more than 512,000 passengers in November, the ninth consecutive month the airport has exceeded its pre-pandemic passenger count.
Domestic travel (491,000 passengers) grew by 3.4 percent last month, while international travel (20,000 passengers) was the highest for any month since before the pandemic started in the United States in the spring of 2020, according to data released today by the Ontario International Authority.
November’s passenger count was two percent higher than November 2019 and nearly seven percent higher that November of last year.
More than 5.2 million travelers passed through Ontario International during the first 11 months of this year, a 3.8 percent increase compared to the first 11 months of 2019 and 30 percent more than 2021.
If the present trend continues, Ontario will post its highest annual passenger count since this year 2008, when 6.2 million passengers used the airport.
“November continued our run of strong growth on both passenger volume and cargo movement,” said Atif Elkadi, the authority’s chief executive officer, in the statement. “Ontario International is showing month after month what full recovery looks like.”
Air cargo shipments totaled more than 74,000 tons in November, a 10.3 percent increase compared with 2019, according to the authority.
From January through November, Ontario freight and mail shipments were more than 761,000 tons, nearly ten percent higher than the first 11 months of 2019, the authority reported.
