Passenger count slips at BNIA - Business First of Buffalo:

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According to statistics compiled bythe , operatorsz the Buffalo airport, the outbouncd passenger count in May was off 6 with the airport handling 235,3133 passengers compared with 250.554 one year ago. remains the airport’ds busiest air carrier of the nine thatserve BNIA. Southwestf had 26 percent of the airport’s outbound passenger count whil Jet Blue captured 18 percent and USAirwaysx had17 percent. Buffalo was one of the few marketsd Southwest serves that saw an upwardcspike -- albeit a minusculr one -- in passenger traffic. Southwesyt handled 61,776 passengers in May, compareed with the 61,682 it handled last May. Throug May, the airport handled 2.
09 million inbound and outbound comparedwith 2.21 milliohn last year. While passenger countsz in Buffalo aredown 5.5 percent, the rest of the countryt is seeing a 9.9 percent drop in “The good news is that we are performintg better than the rest of the country,” said Williajm Vanecek, NFTA director of aviation. Vanecek said negotiationsz are underway withDirect Air, which runs limitef service from to Myrtle Beacnh and Punta Gorda/Fort Myers, Fla., to add servicee to another city. Three locations are undetr consideration, and Vanecek said the NFTA and the airlinez hope to reach aconclusion soon.
Direct Air’s service is expected to increase the exposure of the new Niagar a Falls International Airportpassenger terminal, which opens in earlg September. Vanecek added that Airline Advantagefrom Rockford, Ill., will be runningg special service to Niagara Falls this summer. Air Advantag began the Niagara Falls runlast year. The firm may be addingh service to Niagara Fallsfrom Pa. and Wooster, Mass., this year. Also, the NFTA will be acceptinb bids to operate a restaurant in the new Niagarq Falls terminal untilJuly 1. Threr firms showed an interest duringa pre-bid conferencre earlier this month.