Sea-Tac passenger traffic up 1.3 million passengers in '07

Published: January 17, 2008, 3:43 pm

If Sea-Tac Airport seemed more crowded to you this year, your instincts were right. New year-end figures show 1.3 million more passengers used the airport in 2007 than in 2006. The airport's total passenger count surpassed 30 million for the first time. The final tally was 31,296,628. Domestic traffic rose 3.88 percent, but international traffic jumped at an even higher rate, 9.36 percent, according to airport figures. Last year's traffic to and from international destinations reached 2,710,809 passengers, 231,984 more than the previous year. Sea-Tac's busiest airline in 2007 as 2006 was Alaska with 35 percent of the airport's traffic. In second place was Alaska's sister airline, Horizon, with 13 percent of the total traffic. The top 10 with their Sea-Tac total market share: 1. Alaska 35% 2. Horizon 13 % 3. Southwest 8.7% 4. United 8.6% 5. Northwest 6.7% 6. Delta 5.8% 7. American 5.2% 8. Continental 4.4% 9. US Airways 3.1% 10. Hawaiian

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