TRAVEL ALERT: Jackson Gap and 75th Ave. Detours
The existing off-ramp from inbound Peña Blvd. to Jackson Gap is closed for construction. While a temporary off-ramp is available, construction activity in the area may cause travel impacts. Drivers on Jackson Gap will not be able to travel westbound on E 75th Ave. to the Pikes Peak shuttle lot. Detours are in place.
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DENVER, CO — Feb. 5, 2014 — Denver International Airport (DIA) started 2013 with the busiest January on record for DIA and ended on a similar high note with the busiest December in Denver aviation history.
Passenger traffic in December increased 4.8 percent over the previous year. In December 2013, 4,516,315 people traveled through DIA, versus 4,308,760 people in December 2012. For the full year of 2013, DIA served 52,556,359 passengers, which is 1.1 percent less than 2012’s record-breaking total of 53,156,278 passengers. For the sixth consecutive year, more than 50 million passengers traveled through DIA.
DIA’s nonstop international passenger traffic saw continued strong growth in December, climbing 14 percent over December 2012, marking the seventh consecutive month of double-digit increases. For the full calendar year, DIA’s nonstop international passenger traffic grew 13 percent over 2012. DIA launched service to three new international destinations in 2013, including Tokyo, Japan (NRT), Fort McMurray, Canada (YMM) and Montego Bay, Jamaica (MBJ).
“We’re ending 2013 on a high note with our busiest December on record, our seventh consecutive month of double-digit growth in international traffic, and the sixth year in a row that we served more than 50-million passengers in Denver,” said Denver’s Manager of Aviation, Kim Day. “We also saw growth in the number of people traveling to and from Colorado in 2013 which underscores the overall health of Colorado’s economy and the attractiveness of Colorado as a vacation destination. All of these numbers reaffirm that Denver remains a very strong market for air travel and we look forward to the opportunities ahead in 2014.”
DIA served a total of 187 nonstop destinations in 2013. This included the addition of the three new international destinations listed above and three new nonstop domestic destinations: Greensboro, N.C. (GSO), Saint George, Utah (SGU) and Wilmington, Del. (ILG). Passengers in Denver have access to 164 nonstop domestic destinations in 45 states, which is second only to Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport’s domestic network.
Mail, freight and express cargo operations handled 45,944,471 pounds in December 2013 a 1.6 percent decline compared to the 46,682,017 pounds of cargo handled in December 2012. In 2013, DIA experienced an overall decrease of 4.4-percent in mail, freight and cargo compared to 2012. The total cargo volume in 2013 was 498,938,408 pounds, versus 521,793,111 in 2012.
The complete December 2013 traffic report is available at: http://business.flydenver.com/stats/traffic/index.asp.
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