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Palm Springs International Airport accommodated 129,872 passengers in June, a 23 percent increase compared with June 2019 and a record for the sixth month of the year, according to a statement.
The number of departing flights in June exceeded the number recorded in 2019 by 14 percent, and July and August are each expected to surpass 2019 by more than 24 percent, airport officials reported.
“We’re not just seeing a return to pre-pandemic numbers and consistent month-over-month gains in our passenger traffic; we’ve set a new passenger record,” said Ulises Aguirre, the airport’s executive director of aviation, in the statement. “Additionally, the number of available flights and seats are exceeding what we saw in the summer of 2019.
“We originally forecasted a return to pre-pandemic numbers sometime in early 2023, but Palm Springs has already reached that and did so sooner than anticipated.”
There are nearly 88,000 available departing seats from Palm Springs International, this month, up from a little more than 58,000 in July 2019, according to the airport.
