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Passenger traffic at T.F. Green Airport was down in April compared to a year earlier. But, for the second straight month, the decline was well off the highs posted in the fall. The 4.1 percent decline in April was the smallest in 10 months, excluding March's 2.3 percent drop.

The numbers could signal a bottom in the airline market just as the summer travel season arrives.

In all, 395,499 people traveled through Green last month, down from 412,471 a year ago, according to numbers compiled by the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, the state agency that runs Rhode Island's state airports.

Southwest Airlines, which accounts for more than half of Green's passengers, posted an increase for the first time since May of last year. During most of the interim, the airlines posted double-digit percent losses, though last month it essentially broke even, down 0.1 percent. In April, Southwest carried 220,933 total passengers through Green, up 2.2 percent from 216,243 a year ago.

The total passenger count essentially counts each flyer twice, once when leaving Green and again when arriving, although people who fly one-way or whose trip begins or ends in a different month only are counted once.

 Tags  economy T.F. Green Airport Warwick RI

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