Total Passengers using airports serving 1 million+ passengers in Ohio (along with a few neighbors):

 

                          2006       2005     Pct.

1. Detroit           36.3 mil   36.3 mil   0.0%

2. Cincinnati       16.2 mil   22.7 mil  -28.7%

3. Cleveland       11.6 mil   11.4 mil   2.3%

4. Pittsburgh        9.9 mil   10.4 mil  -4.7%

5. Columbus         6.7 mil     6.6 mil  1.9%

6. Akron-Canton   1.4 mil     1.4 mil  0.3%

7. Dayton            1.3 mil     1.2 mil  6.9%

 

Just an FYI

 

Can we get a source (I believe you; I just need to see the source)?

The source is from the airport's websites themselves, except Detroit which I used from the Airport Councils International, and Cleveland...I could only find a total from November (the total was already at 11.4 million) via a news story on another Hopkins UO thread, so I divided the total into 11 and low-balled it.

 

I didn't want to hide the source....it was a just a bit complex to come up with this. There is no be-all and end-all source.

What a misserable increase in passengers.  The sad part about the "numbers" is that hopkins is only at about 65-70% of capacity.

 

I forgot where I read this, but I understand Hopkins could currently accomodate 19-22 million passengers.

What a misserable increase in passengers.  The sad part about the "numbers" is that hopkins is only at about 65-70% of capacity.

 

I forgot where I read this, but I understand Hopkins could currently accomodate 19-22 million passengers.

 

With the exception of Detroit and Akron-Canton, every one of these airports listed are now underserved and have plenty of extra capacity.

 

CVG got hammered by Delta cutbacks. Likewise with PIT and USAir. Continental is very cautiously growing CLE. Dayton posted a large gain due to AirTran expansion. Akron-Canton is leveling off as AirTran focuses on other cities, but has been has gone through one helluva transformation thanks to that airline's expansion there, it averaged 500,000 pax/yearly as recently as 1995. If SkyBus gets off the ground...CMH numbers should grow quite a bit this year. CMH has already served around 10 percent more passengers for the first two months of '07 compared to '06 without Skybus. Detroit became the largest NW hub in '06 due to a 4% decrease of pax at Minneapolis.

What a misserable increase in passengers.  The sad part about the "numbers" is that hopkins is only at about 65-70% of capacity.

 

I forgot where I read this, but I understand Hopkins could currently accomodate 19-22 million passengers.

 

With the exception of Detroit and Akron-Canton, every one of these airports listed are now underserved and have plenty of extra capacity.

 

CVG got hammered by Delta cutbacks. Likewise with PIT and USAir. Continental is very cautiously growing CLE. Dayton posted a large gain due to AirTran expansion. Akron-Canton is leveling off as AirTran focuses on other cities, but has been has gone through one helluva transformation thanks to that airline's expansion there, it averaged 500,000 pax/yearly as recently as 1995. If SkyBus gets off the ground...CMH numbers should grow quite a bit this year. CMH has already served around 10 percent more passengers for the first two months of '07 compared to '06 without Skybus. Detroit became the largest NW hub in '06 due to a 4% decrease of pax at Minneapolis.

 

I understand that, but continental kills me with the "we don't have planes to expand in Cleveland" BS, yet they cram flights into EWR, causing major delays.  Or during a delay Continental will reroute flights to Cleveland.  I've been on quite a few of those and on days I need to be in New York, not Cleveland. In addition with cutbacks at near airports, you would think continental would have gone after those passengers instead of letting them go to NWA or UA.

 

At the same time they say they don't want to move flights to cleveland for "fear"of canablizing EWR.

 

IN EWR, If they moved two flights from FLL, DCA and Boston to Cleveand and one flight from STL, SEA, SAN, PHX, DEN, SFO, LAX, POR to Cleveland and in IAH move one flight from DCA, OAK, SFO, LAX, SJU, SJO, SFO, SAN, PHX, DEN, POR, VCU, CAL.  Then get rid of ERJ's on flight to ATL, MSY and MIA and replace them with 737s I'd be happy.  If they added a year round flight to Hawaii, London, Amsterdam, tel aviv, Rome, Panama City, USVI I'd be pleased.

 

Although I'm sure our cramped, outdated and understaffed international facilities is big part of the problem.