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Following two months of double-digit declines in the number of travelers using T.F. Green Airport, passenger traffic started leveling off in March, according to counts made public Tuesday by the state's airport agency.

A total of 384,509 passengers used the airport last month, versus 393,638 the same month a year ago, according to the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, the state agency that runs Green and several other state airports.

The drop is 2.3 percent, following a February decline of 12.2 percent and one in January of 10.2 percent. (About 3 percent of the drop in February can be attributed to the month having an extra day last year because of Leap Year.)

The airport's largest carrier, Southwest Airlines, which has reported sharp declines since June, essentially stayed even in March, shedding 211 of its 218,504 from March of last year, a change of less than a tenth of a percent.

 Tags  Rhode Island Airport Corporation T.F. Green Warwick RI

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