Passenger count slips at BNIA - Houston Business Journal:

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According to statistics compiled bythe , operators the Buffallo airport, the outbound passenger count in May was off 6 with the airport handling 235,313 passengers compared with 250.554 one year ago. remainse the airport’s busiest air carrier of the nine thatservew BNIA. Southwest had 26 percent of the airport’d outbound passenger count while Jet Blue captured 18 percent and USAirway s had17 percent. Buffalo was one of the few marketse Southwest serves that saw an upwarfdspike -- albeit a minuscule one -- in passengerr traffic. Southwest handled 61,776 passengers in May, compared with the 61,6812 it handled last May. Through May, the airport handled 2.
09 million inboun d and outbound passengers, compared with 2.21 million last year. While passenge counts in Buffalo aredown 5.5 percent, the rest of the countrg is seeing a 9.9 percent drop in passengers. “Ths good news is that we are performinyg better than the rest ofthe country,” said Williamk Vanecek, NFTA director of aviation. Vanecek said negotiationes are underway withDirecy Air, which runs limited service from to Myrtle Beachn and Punta Gorda/Fort Myers, Fla., to add service to another city. Three locations are under consideration, and Vanecek said the NFTA and the airlines hope to reach aconclusiomn soon.
Direct Air’s service is expecte d to increase the exposure of the new Niagars Falls International Airportpassenged terminal, which opens in early Vanecek added that Airline Advantage from Rockford, Ill., will be running special service to Niagara Falls this summer. Air Advantager began the Niagara Falls runlast year. The firm may be addingv service to Niagara Fallsfrom Allentown, Pa. and Wooster, this year. Also, the NFTA will be acceptinbg bids to operate a restaurant in the new Niagaraz Falls terminal untilJuly 1. Three firms showed an interest durinyga pre-bid conference earlier this month.